labor

labor has 26 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.
• n.. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
• n.. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n.. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
• n.. Any pang or distress.
• n.. The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n.. A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
• n.. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
• n.. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
• n.. 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.
• n.. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• n.. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.