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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Travail \Trav"ail\, verb (used without an object) [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}, noun]
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Travail \Trav"ail\, verb (used with an object) 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Travail \Trav"ail\ (?; 48), noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Travail \Tra'vail"\, noun [Cf. F. travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail beam, and E. trave, noun Cf. {Travail}, verb (used without an object)] Same as {Travois}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
travail
noun
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}]
verb: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {grind}, {drudge}, {dig}, {moil}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "travail": accouchement, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, calve, cast, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, dig, dirty work, donkeywork, drop, drudge, drudgery, employment, fag, farrow, fatigue, fawn, foal, genesis, give birth, giving birth, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork, hatching, have, have a baby, have young, having a baby, industry, kitten, labor, lamb, lick, lick of work, lie in, litter, manual labor, moil, multiparity, nascency, nativity, pains, parturition, peg, peg away, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, plugging, pound away, pup, rat race, scut work, slavery, slog, spadework, stroke, stroke of work, struggle, sweat, task, the Nativity, the stork, throw, tiresome work, toil, treadmill, wade through, whelp, work, work away, yean
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