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Laboring

LA'BORING, ppr. 1. Exerting muscular strength or intellectual power; toiling; moving with pain or with difficulty; cultivating. 2. A laboring man, or laborer, is often used for a man who performs work that req...

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LA'BORING, ppr.

1. Exerting muscular strength or intellectual power; toiling; moving with pain or with difficulty; cultivating.

2. A laboring man, or laborer, is often used for a man who performs work that requires no apprenticeship or professional skill, in distinction from an artisan; but this restricted sense is not always observed. A hard laboring man, is one accustomed to hard labor.

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