5. travail to suffer the pangs of childbirth; be in labor.
Etymology: (1200–50; ME travaillen (v.) < OF travaillier to torment < VL *trepaliāre, der. of LL trepālium torture chamber, lit., instrument of torture made with three stakes (see tri -, pale2))
Definition of 'travail'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child "she was in labor for six hours"
2. (verb)effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat use of physical or mental energy; hard work "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
3. (verb)labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil work hard "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Definition of 'travail'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)travail labor with pain; severe toil or exertion
2. (noun)travail parturition; labor; as, an easy travail
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