What is "belabouring"

Usage examples of "belabouring".

Then he fell to belabouring the would-be suicide with his fists, until the big man cried for mercy and received it not.

Thereupon he set up a cry for his wife, and that woman rushed to him from an inner room, and fell upon Shibli Bagarag, belabouring him.

Jones presently leapt from his bed, where he found the master of the puppet-show belabouring the back and ribs of his poor Merry-Andrew, without either mercy or moderation.