English Dictionary

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.
Source : opted (86142)  - auto

Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
Source : opted (86143)  - auto

That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
Source : opted (86144)  - auto

Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
Source : opted (86145)  - auto

Any pang or distress.
Source : opted (86146)  - auto

The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
Source : opted (86147)  - auto

A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
Source : opted (86148)  - auto

To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
Source : opted (86151)  - auto

To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
Source : opted (86152)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (86153)  - auto