TRAVAIL

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker.

2.
n.

Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

3.
v.

To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer.

4.
v.

To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

5.
v.

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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