'Laboring' definitions:

Definition of 'laboring'

From: WordNet
adjective
Doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling]

Definition of 'Laboring'

From: GCIDE
  • Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored; p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See Labor, n.] [Written also labour.]
  • 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. [1913 Webster]
  • Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
  • The line too labors, and the words move slow. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28 [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. --Totten. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Laboring'

From: GCIDE
  • Laboring \La"bor*ing\, a.
  • 1. That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days. [1913 Webster]
  • The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. --Eccl. v. 12. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Suffering pain or grief. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • Laboring oar, the oar which requires most strength and exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull, the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking. [1913 Webster]

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