Hypertext Webster Gateway: "travail"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Travail \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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Travail \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Travail \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
travail
n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour}, {confinement}, {lying-in},
{childbed}]
2: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A
for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn:
{effort}, {elbow grease}, {exertion}, {sweat}]
v : work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {labour},
{toil}, {fag}, {grind}, {drudge}, {dig}, {moil}]
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