Reverse Dictionary: LABOUR

ADJECTIVES
1225 ► SWINKING hard-working; toiling, labouring
1481 ► LABOURABLE capable of being laboured or worked → obs.
1551 ► LABOURSOME given to labour; hard-working → obs.
1577 ► LABOURSOME requiring labour; accompanied by labour → Eng. dial.
1579 ► CARKING toiling, moiling, labouring → obs.
1592 ► ELABORATE produced or accomplished by labour → obs.
1612 ► OPERARY pert. to the workman, done with labour; doing, as opposed to theoretical → obs.
1641 ► OPEROUS made or done with much labour; laborious; tedious; toilsome; elaborate → obs.
1651 ► CHIROPONAL pertaining to or involving manual labour → obs.
1656 ► LABORIFEROUS that takes pains; that endures labour, painful, difficult → obs.
1656 ► OPERARIOUS pert. to the workman, done with labour; doing, as opposed to theoretical → obs.
1683 ► OPEROSE made or done with much labour; laborious; tedious; toilsome; elaborate
1826 ► LABOUROUS labouring → Sc.

NOUNS
..900 ► I-WIN labour, toil; suffering → obs.
1000 ► SWENCH affliction, trouble, trial; later, labour, toil → obs.
1000 ► SWING labour, toil → obs.
1023 ► TILTH labour, work, or effort directed to use or profitable ends → obs.
1225 ► SWINKING a toiling; labour; hard work
1325 ► CARK that which burdens the spirit, trouble; hence, troubled state of mind, distress, anxiety; anxious solicitude, labour, or toil → arch.
1350 ► SWINKHEAD a state of labour or toil → obs.
1400 ► SWENG toil, labour → obs.
1460 ► LABORATION working, work, labour → obs.
1479 ► MANOEUVRE hand-labour → obs.
1484 ► LABOURAGE ​labouring, labour, work → obs.
1550 ► TURMOILING commotion, agitation, disquietude; also, severe labour, toiling
1567 ► MANUFACTURE a product of hand-labour; a person’s handiwork → obs.
1618 ► MANUFACTORY something that is produced by labour → obs.
1644 ► DROIL drudgery; toil in disagreeable work; mean labour → obs.
1677 ► ARM LABOUR manual labour → obs.
1727 ► ILLABORATENESS the quality of being effected without labour and pains → obs.
1788 ► DARGING the work of a day labourer, esp. hard, plodding toil → Sc.
..19C ► FIZZLE-FARTING JOB tedious and unprofitable labour → Eng. dial.
1813 ► MOIL toil, drudgery, hard labour → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1819 ► GANG a set of labourers or workmen → Sc. & Eng. dial. 
1825 ► RAMBOUNGE a severe brush of labour → Sc.
1826 ► LABOURAGE payment for labour
1846 ► EYEBALLING the act of working extremely hard, esp. at a gruelling manual task; arduous physical labour → Aust. colloq. obs.
1864 ► MOILD toil, labour, drudgery → Eng. dial.
1865 ► DAYTAL-WORK labour paid by the day → Eng. dial.
1881 ► ERGOPHOBIA fear of work; morbid aversion to labour
1890 ► HARD hard labour → Brit. sl.
1897 ​► ELBOW-POLISH energetic labour of any kind, elbow-grease → (Bk.)
1898 ► ON-WAUR expenditure, outlay, trouble, labour → Sc.
1901 ► A NEVES → A NEVIS seven years’ hard labour → back-slang 
1905 ► HAND-DARG handiwork, labour, toil; what is gained by labour → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► HAND-STIR the smallest possible amount of labour → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► HAND-STROKE the smallest possible amount of labour → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► TAVE a  difficulty, struggle, pinch; hard labour; the act of labouring hard → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► THROUGH-GANG labour, difficulty; perseverance; energy → Sc. (Bk.)
1909 ► ABRAHAM WORK sweated labour, ill-paid work → sl. (Bk.)
1929 ► TAG tiring, troublesome labour → Sc.
1944 ► BULLWORK manual labour; hard work → Amer. dial.
1947 ► CHANGE WORK an exchange of labour → Amer. dial.
1951 ► HANA work, labour → Hawaii
1967 ► HANAHANA labour, hard work → Hawaii
1988 ► PUGGY WORK hard physical labour → Sc. sl.
1999 ► YAKKA physical labour → Aust. sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS, PERSON
1230 ► HINE a servant; esp., in later use, a farm servant, an agricultural labourer
1325 ► LABORER → LABOURER one who performs physical labour as a service or for a livelihood; one who does work requiring chiefly bodily strength or aptitude and little skill or training, as distinguished, for example, from an artisan; one who takes pains in any employment; an unskilled worker
1340 ► SWINKER a person who toils or works hard; a labourer
1382 ► HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER labourers of the lowest kind; drudges
1385 ► PAGE a youth or man of low status; a commoner; a peasant; a labourer → obs, exc. Sc., often depreciative
1480 ► HAND-WORKER a person who works with his hands: opposed variously to one who works with his head, one who employs the hands of others, or one who works with a machine; a manual labourer; a crafts person
1520 ► HIND a servant; esp., in later use, a farm servant, an agricultural labourer
1549 ► LABOUR-FELLOW a fellow labourer → obs.
1551 ► HAND a person employed by another in any manual work; a workman or workwoman, a labourer
1552 ► BILLMAN a labourer using a bill (a pike or hooked axe)
1570 ► LABOURESS a female labourer → obs.
1587 ► HEAVER a person in heaves; specifically, a labourer employed in landing goods at a dockyard
1592 ► MANUALIST one who works or labours with the hands → obs.
..17C ► APRON-ROGUE a labourer; an artisan → colloq.
1627 ► BANKER a labourer who makes or repairs the banks of waterways; spec. one who digs drains, ditches, etc.; chiefly used in the eastern counties of England
1639 ► DAYSMAN a worker by the day; a day-labourer
1645 ► HELP a person employed to give assistance in household or other manual work; in the U.S., a hired labourer or servant, esp. a domestic servant
1659 ► COPIATE a labourer, a toiler → obs.
1664 ► HIGH-SHOON-MAN an agricultural labourer
1694 ► HIRE MAN a farmhand, a labourer
1694 ► HIRED MAN a farmhand, a labourer → Amer. dial.
1723 ► DARGSMAN a workman, a labourer → Sc. & N. Eng. dial., obs.
1742 ► HANDYMAN a man able or employed to undertake a variety of manual tasks; a general labourer; a man employed or engaged to carry out domestic repairs and building maintenance; an odd-job man
1742 ► MONTH’S MAN an agricultural labourer employed at higher than usual wages for one month during harvest → obs.
1750 ► MONTH-MAN an agricultural labourer employed at higher than usual wages for one month during harvest → Eng. dial. obs.
1780 ► SPALPEEN a common workman or labourer; a farm worker or harvester; a migratory agricultural labourer → Irish
1788 ► YARD-BOY a general labourer; a gardener or gardener’s boy → obs. exc. Caribbean
1790 ► DAYTAL a labourer engaged and paid by the day → Eng. dial.
1795 ► DARKSMAN a workman, a labourer → Sc., obs.
..19C ► CLODHOPPER an agricultural labourer → colloq.
..19C ► CULCHIE a rustic; a country labourer → Irish colloq., derogatory
1802 ► DARGER a day labourer; one who works by the day → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1807 ► DARKER a day labourer → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1811 ► MOZO a male servant or attendant; a groom; a labourer → chiefly Latin American
1824 ► HARL → HARLE a big, untidy, coarse, cross-grained person; a rough field-labourer → Sc.
1830 ► GANGMAN a member of a gang of workers or labourers; a foreman or overseer of such a gang
1833 ► LUMPER an unskilled labourer; a freight handler → Amer. dial.
1836 ► JACK a serving-man or male attendant; a labourer; a man who does odd jobs, etc.; a handyman
1838 ► DOCK-WALLOPER a labourer who works on docks or wharves, esp. a longshoreman → US sl.
1839 ► BOY in South Africa: a coloured labourer or servant of any age or race
1846 ► DAYTAL-MAN a day labourer → Eng. dial.
1848 ► TAKER-UP a labourer who gathers up the grass just mown
.M19 ► COOLIE an immigrant Chinese labourer → US usage
.M19 ► MIKE a labourer, a hod-carrier, esp. when Irish → sl.
1852 ► GANG WORKER a member of a gang of labourers
1856 ► MULLOCKER a manual labourer; a careless or inept labourer → Aust. & NZ
1856 ► PADDY a menial or manual labourer; a bricklayer’s or builder’s labourer
1865 ► TIGER a menial labourer → sl.
1866 ► MUD-DAUBER a manual worker or labourer → US derogatory
1867 ► WORKER-OUT a field-labourer; a day-labourer → Eng. dial.
1869 ► HEAVY-CLAY an agricultural labourer
1875 ► BANKING MAN a navvy, or bank mender, a banker → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1875 ► BLACKBIRD an indentured labourer recruited in the south Pacific to work on a sugar plantation → sl., orig. & chiefly nautical usage
1877 ► DAYTALER a day labourer, a man who works by the day and not by the piece → Eng. dial.
1881 ► DATALLER a day-labourer; a workman engaged and paid by the day → Eng. dial.
1885 ► BILLY TURNIPTOP an agricultural labourer → UK sl.
1886 ► BILDAR an excavator or digging labourer → Anglo-Indian (Bk.)
1886 ► NABBY a navvy; a labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1886 ► NABIGATOR a navvy; a rough labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1890 ► BEGARRY one who is engaged in forced labour → Anglo-Indian (Bk.)
1890 ► DAYMAN a day labourer; one who works and is paid by the day → Eng. dial.
1891 ► BLANKET STIFF a migratory labourer who carries his belongings in a blanket roll or other bundle; a tramp  → Amer. Hobo & West. sl.
1891 ► YEARSMAN a labourer hired by the year
1895 ► DAYTAL-LABOURER a day labourer → Eng. dial.
1895 ► LABBAT an inferior labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..L19 ► FLANNEL BACK a navvy, who wears such a garment → sl.
..L19 ► FLANNEL-JACKET a navvy, who wears such a garment → sl.
..L19 ► RAT a worker who undercuts standards established by unionized labour → US sl.
..20C ► ROCK-HOG a labourer engaged in tunnelling through rock
1900 ► DALLACKER a day labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DAYTAL-CHAP a day labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DAYTAL-DANOCK a day labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DAYTAL-DICK a day labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DAYTAL-FELLOW a day labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DAYTAL-WIFE a day-labouring woman → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► HARRY-GAUD a master of labour, who is continually goading on his workmen to greater exertion → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► HELPER a labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► YARDIE a dockyard labourer → Eng. dial.
1905 ► TASQUER a day-labourer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1907 ► SWAMPER a general assistant or labourer; a menial
1908 ► GRUNT a common or unskilled worker; a labourer → sl.
1909 ► GAWDELPUS an impoverished labourer → sl. (Bk.)
1910 ► HARD-ROCK MAN a labourer experienced in or capable of heavy work with rock (in tunnelling, construction work, etc.
1911 ​► PAIKIE a day labourer; one employed in forestry → Sc.
1911 ► PYKIE a day labourer; one employed in forestry → Sc.
1918 ► BANJO-SWINGER a manual labourer → Aust. sl.
1920 ► MAN-CATCHER a labour recruiter; an employment agency → US sl.
1920 ► MAN-GETTER a labour recruiter; an employment agency → US sl.
1920 ► MAN-GRABBER a labour recruiter; an employment agency → US sl.
1920 ► MAN-HUNTER a labour recruiter; an employment agency → US sl.
1920 ► MAN-SHARK a labour recruiter; an employment agency → US sl.
1925 ► OICKMAN a labourer, a shopkeeper; hence, an objectionable fellow → UK sl.
1926 ► DIRT SLINGER a pick-and-shovel worker → US sl.
1927 ► PEA PICKER a rustic or countrified person; a bumpkin; an unskilled labourer → Amer. dial.
1930 ► MICK a labourer on the roads → sl.
1937 ► BLACK STUFF Black labourers → S. Afr. sl.
1940 ► JACK  a non-union labourer; a strike-breaker → Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘scab’ (Jack McNab)
1941 ► APPLEKNOCKER an itinerant farm labourer → Amer. dial., often derogatory
1955 ► CADCATCHER an assistant or helper; a cheap labourer (Bk.)
1960 ► MCALPINE FUSILIER a building labourer, a navvy → US sl.
1966 ► IDIOT-STICK OPERATOR a common labourer (idiot-stick = shovel)→ Amer. dial.
1975 ► GANDY DANCER one who works with pick and shovel; any manual labourer → Amer. logging sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
..897 ► TILL to strive, to exert oneself, to labour, to work → obs.
..950 ► AWIN to labour → obs.
1000 ► SWING to labour, to toil → obs.
1300 ► OFSWINK to gain by labour; to labour for → obs.
1350 ► CARK to be anxious, to fret oneself; to labour anxiously, to toil and moil → obs.
1374 ► HEAVE to put forth effort; to endeavour, to labour, to strive → obs.
1377 ► BESWINK to labour for, to work for → obs.
1393 ► BETRAVAIL to work for; to earn by labour → obs.
1400 ► BYSWENKE to work hard; to exert oneself, to labour → obs.
1548 ► LOSE ONE’S OIL to study or labour in vain → obs.
1604 ► BELABOUR to labour at, to work at; to exert one’s strength or ability upon → obs.
1609 ► IMPLOD to cause to plod, to involve in toilsome labour → obs.
1656 ► ALLABORATE to labour vehemently → obs.
1657 ► CAST STONES AGAINST THE WIND to labour in vain → obs.
1662 ► LABORATE to produce or develop by labour → obs.
1760 ► ADDLE to earn by labour → Eng. dial.
1772 ► FAG to do something that wearies one; to work hard; to labour, to strain, to toil
1777 ► MOIL to toil, to labour, to work hard, to drudge → Sc. & Eng. dial.  
1843 ► HAMMER to practise laboriously; to labour → Eng. dial.
1863 ► TAVE to strive, to toil, to labour → Sc.
1866 ► TAG to oppress by hard labour → Sc.
1866 ► TEW to toil, to labour; to work hard; to pull, to struggle; to contend, to strive → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1876 ► MOIDER to labour very hard → Eng. dial.
1876 ► PADDY to perform menial labour → Amer. dial.
1898 ► BATTER to labour or walk at a great rate → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..L19 ► YAKKA → YAKKER to work hard, to labour → Aust. sl.
1900 ► ENDEAVOUR FOR to work, to labour → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► NAG to labour persistently and painfully; to repeat an action with irritating frequency → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1904 ► SCRATTLE to labour hard; to scrape and save → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► HAG AT A THING to persevere, to labour, to work away at a thing → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► HAIFER to toil, to labour → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MAKE LITTLE SHOES of a labourer: to have no regular employment → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► THRIPPLE to labour hard → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1924 ► YAGGLE to work in a slow bungling or laboriously way, to toil and moil, to labour → Sc.
1930 ► PACK THE MUSTARD to work as a bricklayer or labourer → US tramp sl.
1941 ► BREAK ONE’S ASS to exert oneself to the limit of endurance; to toil, to labour, to strive furiously → Amer. sl.
1941 ► BUST ONE’S ASS to exert oneself to the limit of endurance; to toil, to labour, to strive furiously → Amer. sl.
1967 ► HANAHANA to labour, to work hard → Hawaii