Travail /(?; 48)/

Trav·ail

Travail

n.
  1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
    As everything of price, so this doth require travail.
  2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

Travail

n.
  1. Same as Travois.

Travail

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Travailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing

  1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic]
  2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

Travail

v. t.
  1. To harass; to tire. [Obs.]
    As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility.