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▸ noun:  (literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
▸ noun:  Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
▸ verb:  To toil.
▸ verb:  To go through the labor of childbirth.
▸ noun:  Obsolete form of travel. [The act of traveling; passage from place to place.]
▸ noun:  Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”) [(originally and chiefly Canada, US, historical) A frame, often consisting of two poles tied together at one end to form a V-shaped structure with the vertex attached to a dog, horse, etc., or held by a person and the other ends touching the ground, which was used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land.]

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