Synonyms:
drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling
Meaning: doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
Usage examples
Laboring like a giant
They were both laboring under a repressed excitement.
"Reddy is laboring under a false impression," said Anne.
Thurston felt his laboring and clutched Mona still tighter.
Two half men--maybe we equal one whole." Jason was laboring too hard to even notice the insult.
But long before he reached the top he was ascending one by one, with straining limbs and laboring breath.
This state of affairs must exist so far as society is organized on a basis of division between laboring classes and leisure classes.
My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 2, where, a year or two later, he was killed by Indians--not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest.
It was in fact quite abnormal, and has not been seen elsewhere. The owners of factories wished to keep their machines employed as many hours as possible; the laboring classes of England, being at the same time demoralized and depressed by industrial and social influences that had no logical connection with machinery, had no power to resist this movement.