laboring
Speech parts
1. laboring - Noun
2. laboring - Adjective
3. laboring - Verb
5. laboring - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Labor
That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.
Suffering pain or grief.
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drudging peasants
the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
toiling coal miners in the black deeps
Afterwards, in a contemptuous reprisal for 25 days of hunger and of laboring over the siegeworks required to breach Avaricum's defenses, the Romans slaughtered nearly the entire population of ~40,000 leaving only ~800 alive.
Carson wrote in his Memoirs: "For two or three years after our arrival, we had to remain forted and it was necessary to have men stationed at the extremities of the fields for the protection of those that were laboring."
Frustration among the laboring classes arose when the Constituent Assembly did not address the concerns of the workers.