TRAVAIL
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Trav"ail (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. Trave). Cf. Travel.] 1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
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As everything of price, so this doth require travail.
Hooker.
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2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
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‖Tra`vail" (?), n. [Cf. F. travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. Travail, v. i.] Same as Travois.
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Trav"ail, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n.] 1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] “Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings.” Latimer.
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2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
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Trav"ail, v. t. To harass; to tire. [Obs.]
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As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility.
Hayward.
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