work, esp when difficult or done for wages; toil

Once you are a showman you are plumb ruined for manual labour again — Will Rogers

workers collectively

(Labour) (treated as sing. or pl) the Labour Party

the process of childbirth, usu regarded as beginning at the time of the first regular contractions of the uterus, and ending at delivery

(+ under) to be misled by (something)

She was labouring under the misapprehension that we had already gone

to be in the process of giving birth

to deal with or explain (something) in laborious detail

He always has to labour the point

archaic to cultivate (the ground)