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.
A bundle or bale tied up for convenient carriage; a load; a set of playing cards; a body of hounds for hunting; a number of persons confederated, in an ill sense. ...