Meaning

• Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.

• That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

• Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.

• A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.

• The act of a mother giving birth.

• The time period during which a mother gives birth.

• The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

• An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.

Meaning

• To toil, to work.

• To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).

  "I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point."

• To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.

• To suffer the pangs of childbirth.

• To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.