Results for labouring

Definitions of labouring:

part of speech: noun

The act of labouring; the pitching and rolling of a vessel in a heavy sea.

part of speech: adjective / noun

Exerting bodily strength or intellectual power; engaged at work not requiring skill; toiling.

Usage examples for labouring:

• The labouring classes are well employed. "Cities of the Dawn", J. Ewing Ritchie

• In a letter published on 4th August, the Times' correspondent remarks:- In a few weeks, with a continuance of the present drain upon our mining, mechanical, and labouring population generally, as good a field for labour of every kind will again be open in California as there was from 1849 to 1851, when the country became flooded with immigrants. "Handbook to the new Gold-fields", R. M. Ballantyne

• " I shall do what is right," he repeated stubbornly; and Vaughan, knowing the man well, perceived that, quiet as he seemed, he was labouring under strong excitement. "Chippinge Borough", Stanley J. Weyman