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laboring |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr & vb n. {Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare See {Labor}, n.] [Written also {labour}.] 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work to toil. Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. --Milton. 2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. 3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under and formerly with of The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville. The line too labors,and the words move slow. --Pope. To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir W. Scott. Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi 28 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. 5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. -- Totten. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Laboring \La"bor*ing\, a. 1. That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work not requiring skill also set apart for labor; as laboring days. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. --eccl. v. 12. 2. Suffering pain or grief. --Pope. {Laboring oar}, the oar which requires most strength and exertion; often used figuratively; as to have or pull the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: laboring adj : doing arduous or unpleasant work "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: {drudging}, {labouring}, {toiling}]
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