Definitions
undergo the efforts of childbirth
Word origin
From Middle English labouren, from Old French laborer, from Latin laborare (“(intransitive) to labor, strive, exert oneself, suffer, be in distress, (transitive) to work out, elaborate”), from labor (“labor, toil, work, exertion”); perhaps remotely akin to robur (“strength”). Displaced native English swink (“toil, labor”).
Used in a sentence
“[…]So I ſet myſelf to enlarge my Cave and Works farther into the Earth; for it was a looſe ſandy Rock, which yielded eaſily to the Labour I beſtowed on it[…]”
“Being a labour of so great difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.”
“In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“arduous work”6 letters
02“British spelling of labor”6 letters
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