Results for labour

Definitions of labour:

part of speech: noun

Exertion, bodily or mental, producing fatigue; toil; effort; the pangs and efforts of child- birth.

part of speech: verb

To work at; to exert one's powers of body or mind; to toil; to strive; to pitch and roll, as a ship; to struggle.

part of speech: noun

Laborer, labourer.

Usage examples for labour:

• He can only become a power as the head of a new Labour party. "Marcella", Mrs. Humphry Ward

• 199. At what age does Water in the Brain usually occur, and how is a mother to know that her child is about to labour under that disease? "Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children", Pye Henry Chavasse

• So they set to work, and never did Benita labour as it was her lot to do that day. "Benita, An African Romance", H. Rider Haggard

• And thus did we each endeavour to do our share of pleasant labour for the benefit of the common school. "A Boy's Voyage Round the World", The Son of Samuel Smiles