Thesaurus: labor

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1. n. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.
2. n. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
3. n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
4. n. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
5. n. Any pang or distress.
6. n. The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
7. n. A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
8. n. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
9. n. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
10. n. 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.
11. n. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
12. n. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
13. v. t. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
14. v. t. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
15. v. t. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
16. v. t. To belabor; to beat.