LekhoriLekhoriAn effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
[…]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[…]
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
Being a labour of so great difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.
Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
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.
To toil, to work.
Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
Short for the Labour Party.
From Middle English labor, labour, labur, from Old French labor (modern labeur) and its etymon, Latin labor.
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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.
the stone that labours up the hill
Misspelling of Labor, an Australian political party.