transitive. To employ or use in labour; to set or compel (a person or animal) to work; to use (the body or mind) in some work or activity. Now poetic.

transitive. To put (an animal) to work. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make a jade of (a horse); to exhaust or wear out by driving or working hard; to fatigue, weary, tire.

To treat as a slave; to employ in hard or servile labour.

transitive. To urge (a person or animal) on in a particular task; to force or oblige (a person or animal) to work hard; to overwork. Also reflexive…