Definition of 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.
• n. - Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
• n. - That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n. - Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
• n. - Any pang or distress.
• n. - The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n. - A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
• n. - To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
• n. - To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
• n. - 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.
• n. - To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• n. - To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
• v. t. - To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
• v. t. - To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
• v. t. - To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
• v. t. - To belabor; to beat.