Definition of labor

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Labor (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..

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Overlabor :: Overlabor (v. t.) To cause to labor excessively; to overwork.
Navvy :: Navvy (n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc..
Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity..
Circuit :: Circuit (n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
Sabbathless :: Sabbathless (a.) Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest..
Workfolk :: Workfolk (n.) People that labor.
Trampoose :: Trampoose (v. i.) To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp..
Cultivate :: Cultivate (v. t.) To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine..
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope..
Exhausting :: Exhausting (a.) Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors..
Scrub :: Scrub (n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
Fag :: Fag (v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Belabor :: Belabor (v. t.) To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.
Development :: Development (n.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.
Laborsome :: Laborsome (a.) Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor..
Expiscate :: Expiscate (v. t.) To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
Manure :: Manure (v. t.) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture..
Fatigue :: Fatigue (n.) To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
Day-labor :: Day-labor (n.) Labor hired or performed by the day.
Gripe :: Gripe (v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm..
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