Webster's 1828 Dictionary
LABORING
ppr. 1. Exerting muscular strength or intellectual power; toiling; moving with pain or with difficulty; cultivating.
2. A laboring man, or laborer, is often used for a man who performs work that requires no apprenticeship or professional skill, in distinction from an artisan; but this restricted sense is not always observed. A hard laboring man, is one accustomed to hard labor.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
LABORING
LABORING La "bor *ing, a.
1. That labors; performing labor; esp. , performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. eccl. v. 12.
2. Suffering pain or grief. Pope. Laboring oar, the oar which requires most strength and exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull, the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
laboring
l á bor ing ｟英 ｠-bour ing 形容詞 〖名詞 の前で 〗1 ｟やや古 ｠労働者に属する 〈階級など 〉.2 骨の折れる 〈仕事 〉.
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