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Travail
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (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.