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Definition of Labouring
1. Adjective. Doing arduous or unpleasant work. "Toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
Definition of Labouring
1. Verb. (British Canada) (present participle of ''labour'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Labouring
1. labour [v] - See also: labour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labouring
Literary usage of Labouring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In this article labour always means the labouring classes. ... Moreover, usage
justifies this extension of the terms, labour and labouring c/<m. ..."
2. Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1896)
"For the purpose therefore of altering the habits of the labouring people, ...
An effective national education of the children of the labouring class, ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"REPORT ON DWELLINGS FOR THE labouring CLASSES. BY HENRY E. ARMSTRONG, Medical
Officer of Health to the City and County of ..."
4. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1816)
"Or labouring Meter ... or labouring Land Coal Meter or Meen, ; offending, (hall
for every fuch ... of the labouring Land Coal Meters to be appointed f> ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Л mighty man that can and may, Should with his bond and body alway, Winne him
his food in labouring, If be ne have rent or euch a thing; Although he be ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1843)
"Urea discovered in the Blood of individuals labouring under Inflammation of the
Lungs. By Dr. F. SIMON.—Having taken the coagula of six bleedings performed ..."
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