noun any pang or distress.
2. labor ·add. ·noun a store or set of stopes.
3. labor ·noun travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
4. labor ·vt to form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
5. labor ·noun to be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
6. labor ·noun to pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
7. labor ·vt to belabor; to beat.
8. labor ·noun intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
9. labor ·noun a measure of land in mexico and texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
10. labor ·noun that which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
11. labor ·noun the pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
12. labor ·vt to prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
13. labor ·vt to work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
14. labor ·noun to exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
15. labor ·noun to exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
xvi. labor ·noun 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.
xvii. labor ·noun 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.