6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the
straining of timbers and rigging.
7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area
of 177 acres. Bartlett.
Syn. -- Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry;
painstaking. See Toll.
La"bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.]
[OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See Labor, n.] [Written also
labour.] 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden.
Milton.
2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to
strive; to take pains.
3. 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.
The stone that labors up the hill.
Granville.
The line too labors,and the words move slow.
Pope.
To cure the disorder under which he labored.
Sir W. Scott.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.