LABOURING | Definition of LABOURING by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of LABOURING

adjective

• 1Working at an unskilled manual occupation.

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  • ‘the labouring classes’
• 2Working or moving with difficulty.

  ‘his labouring heart calmed’

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  • ‘he had to yell to be heard over the sound of the labouring engine’

  1. 2.1(of a ship) rolling or pitching heavily.
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     • ‘occasionally the labouring ship spat the caulking from some underwater seam’
• 3(of a woman) in labour; in the process of giving birth.

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