• haberdasher

• bat

• dolly, picker

• shooting-stick

• prime mover

• effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, force, push, stress, throw, toil

• means

• to make an effort

• joint efforts

• joint efforts

• rope of sand

• to be on the job

• shoulder to shoulder

• to relax in one's efforts

• bid

• frenzied efforts

• to flog a dead horse

• bid

• success attended my efforts