LA'BORING, participle present tense 1. Exerting muscular strength or intellectual power; toiling; moving with pain or with difficulty; cultivating. 2. A laboring man, or laborer, is often used for a man who performs work that requires no apprenticeship or professional skill, in distinction from an artisan; but this restricted sense is not always observed. A hard laboring man, is one accustomed to hard labor.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI