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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Belabored

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Belaboring

To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.

“If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn.”

Barrow.

To beat soundly; to cudgel.

Ajax

belabors

there a harmless ox.

Dryden.

Verb.

[perhaps from be and labor; but in Russ. bulava is a club.] To beat soundly; to thump.

Ajax belabors there a harmless ox.