MOILS

Hard work.

Confusion, turmoil.

A spot; a defilement.

To toil, to work hard.

To churn continually; to swirl.

To defile or dirty.

The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.

(blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).

The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.