Travail
Travail (?; 48) , noun
[French travail; compare Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from Late Latin trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to Latin trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (compare Trave). Compare Travel.]
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 , noun
[Compare French travail, a frame for confining a horse, or Old French travail beam, and English trave, n. Compare Travail, v. i.]
Same as Travois.
Travail , intransitive verb
[French travailler, Old French traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; compare Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n.]
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.
Travail , transitive verb
To harass; to tire. [Obsolete]
As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility.