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Webster's Online English Dictionary

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labor


labor is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] 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. God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive. Milton.

[2] Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.

[3] That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for. Hooker.

[4] Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. The queen`s in labor, They say, in great extremity; and feared She`ll with the labor end. Shak.

[5] Any pang or distress. Shak.

[6] The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

[7] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177 Bartlett.


Synonyms:

drudgery
effort
exertion
industry
task
toil
work
painstakin

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