travail

1. n. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. Source: opted

2. n. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail. Source: opted

3. n. To labor with pain; to toil. Source: opted

4. n. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. Source: opted

5. v. t. To harass; to tire. Source: opted

6. n. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child Source: wordnet

7. n. use of physical or mental energy; hard work Source: wordnet

8. v. work hard Source: wordnet

9. 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. 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. 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. Source: webster

10. To harass; to tire. [Obs.]As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail therealm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward. Source: adambom

11. v:6/n:94 n concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child n use of physical or mental energy; hard work v work hard Source: ecdict

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