labor pain
IPA: ɫˈeɪbɝpeɪn
noun
- (American spelling, often plural) alternative form of labour pain [(British spelling, often plural) the pain suffered by a woman in labour during childbirth.]
Examples of "labor-pain" in Sentences
- She never felt a labor-pain, and twelve days afterward rode 20 miles over a rough road to go to her baby's funeral.
- I had bearing down in the lower portion of the womb -- great pain all through my body: the pain in my womb was more like "labor-pain" than anything I can compare it to; I had palpitation of the heart, light chills, hay fever; had pain in my stomach like colic.