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Travail   /trəvˈeɪl/   Listen
noun
Travail  n.  
1.
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. "As everything of price, so this doth require travail."
2.
Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.


Travail  n.  Same as Travois.


verb
Travail  v. t.  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."


Travail  v. i.  (past & past part. travailed; pres. part. travailing)  
1.
To labor with pain; to toil. (Archaic) "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings."
2.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.





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"Travail" Quotes from Famous Books



... nearer than they, or other well-wishers, whose tardy recognition of his claims had come too late, imagined. He who had 'always hovered between hope and anxiety' was now hovering between life and death, soon to be released from all earthly travail. ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham
... transit in front of him. Here, to all observers, was a double philosophical lesson, a twofold impression: that of the greatness, the omnipotence of the inexorable forces that govern the universe, and that of the inexorable valor of man, of this thinking atom straying upon another atom, who by the travail of his feeble intelligence has arrived at the knowledge of the laws by which he, like the rest of the world, is borne away through space, through time, and ...
— Astronomy for Amateurs • Camille Flammarion
... He to whom we refused shelter when the Mother who bore Him was in travail, could find a loving refuge in our souls to-day! But alas! apart from these nuns, these children, these priests, and these peasant women who cherish Him so truly, how many here present are, like me, embarrassed by ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... concealed with any but the thinnest hypocrisy—the life of prostitution was not so bad. Did the life of virtue offer any attractive alternative? Whether a woman was "bad" or "good," she must live in travail and die in squalor to be buried in or near the Potter's Field. But if the girl still living at home were not "good," that would mean a baby to be taken care of, would mean the girl herself not a contributor to the family support but a double burden. ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... how or why. Such curious anomalies are frequent enough in the world. Mme. d'Aiglemont's reputation was certainly no more extraordinary than plenty of other great reputations. There are men who are always in travail of some great work which never sees the light, statisticians held to be profound on the score of calculations which they take very good care not to publish, politicians who live on a newspaper article, men of letters ...
— A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac


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