About The Word Travail
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Travail
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What's The Definition Of Travail?
[n] use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
[n] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [v] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" Synonyms | Synonyms for Travail: childbed | confinement | dig | drudge | effort | elbow grease | exertion | fag | grind | labor | labor | labour | labour | lying-in | moil | parturiency | sweat | toil Related Terms | Find terms related to Travail: See Also | application | asynclitism | birth | birthing | detrition | difficulty | diligence | do work | effacement | exercise | exercising | friction | gestation | giving birth | labor | labour | least effort | least resistance | obliquity | overexertion | overkill | parturition | physical exercise | physical exertion | pregnancy | premature labor | premature labour | pull | rubbing | strain | straining | struggle | supererogation | toil | trouble | uterine contraction | work | workout Travail In Webster's Dictionary \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}.
\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. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. --Hooker. 2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail. \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. 2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. \Trav"ail\, v. t. 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. --Hayward. |
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