Sekirov Dictionary

travail

/tɹəˈveɪl/

noun 4
verb 2
forms 6

noun4

•
Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
- The lady shrieks and, well-a-near, Does fall in travail with her fear. — 1607
•
(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
- Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. […] — 1582
(no longer used) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
(no longer used) The eclipse of a celestial object.

verb2

•
To toil.
- [A]ll slothful persons, which will not travail for their livings, do the will of the devil. — 1552
•
To go through the labor of childbirth.
- And they iourneyed from Bethel: and there was but a litle way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel traueiled, and she had hard labour. — 1611

forms

travailed · travailing · travaileth · travails · travailest · travaux

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