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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Picket :: Picket (n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance..
Tire :: Tire (v. t.) To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade..
Drudgery :: Drudgery (n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers..
Overlook :: Overlook (v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter..
Deserve :: Deserve (v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise..
Toil :: Toil (v. i.) To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work..
Elaborated :: Elaborated (imp. & p. p.) of Elaborat.
Unfit :: Unfit (v. t.) To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings..
Mucker :: Mucker (n.) A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person.
Fag :: Fag (v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Washy :: Washy (a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse..
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
Pleasure :: Pleasure (n.) Amusement; sport; diversion; self-indulgence; frivolous or dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc..
Curious :: Curious (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
Ranchman :: Ranchman (n.) An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman..
Gang :: Gang (v. i.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows..
Worry :: Worry (v. t.) To harass with labor; to fatigue.
Childbed :: Childbed (n.) The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition..
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