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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.

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.

4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

5. Any pang or distress.

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

7. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.

8. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.

9. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.

10. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

11. A store or set of stopes.

12. A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177 acres.

13. 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.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

1. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.

2. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.

3. To belabor; to beat.

4. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge streuously; as, to labor a point or argument.