See moil on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1952, Ralph Ellison, chapter 23, in Invisible Man:",
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"ref": "1849, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke's Song:",
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"ref": "1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh:",
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