lab

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

lab, v. i. [Cf. OD. labben to babble.].

 To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

lab, n. 

•  A telltale; a prater; a blabber.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  Laboratory.  [PJC]

lab, a. 

 Of or pertaining to a laboratory; as, a lab bench.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lab, n. colloq. a laboratory.

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ROGET THESAURUS

lab

Workshop

N workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business, manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory, cabinet, studio, office, branch office bureau, atelier, hive, hive of industry, nursery, hothouse, hotbed, kitchen, mint, forge, loom, dock, dockyard, alveary, armory, laboratory, lab, research institute, refinery, cannery, power plant, beauty parlor, beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf, foundry, foundery, furnace, vineyard, crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix, at work, at the office, at the shop, working.