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labouring
Part of speech: NounExerting bodily strength or intellectual power; engaged at work not requiring skill; toiling.
Part of speech: AdjectiveThe act of labouring; the pitching and rolling of a vessel in a heavy sea.
Usage examples "labouring":- Several times his face had become scarlet, and his eyes had fallen; he had pressed his hand to his brow, to assure himself that he was not labouring under a hideous dream, and a quiver of horror had run through his whole frame. - "The Book of Were-Wolves", Sabine Baring-Gould.
- The labouring man with hanging head has reached his goal the first. - "'O Thou, My Austria!'", Ossip Schubin.
- He kept his promise, given in the following verse: And I, when to breathe is a labour, and joy Forgets me, and life is no longer the boy, On the labouring staff, and the tremorous knee, Will wander, bright river, to thee! - "Angling Sketches", Andrew Lang.