To work at; to exert one's powers of body or mind; to toil; to strive; to pitch and roll, as a ship; to struggle.
Exertion, bodily or mental, producing fatigue; toil; effort; the pangs and efforts of child- birth.
An Eng. measure of length or distance of 1760 yards- also called the statute mile, from having been incidentally defined in a statute of Queen Elizabeth; a measure of length differing widely in European countries. ...