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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



... friend," continued the lady, offering a piece of gold, "in acknowledgment of thy painful travail, and of the ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... roses spring up by thy feet that the rocks of the wilderness wore. Ah! when thy Balder comes back and we gather the gains he hath won, Shall we not linger a little to talk of thy sweetness of old, Yea, turn back awhile to thy travail whence the ...
— Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough • William Morris
... the field was comparatively open. In California there had been religious persecution and in New Mexico the valleys very generally had been occupied for centuries by agricultural Indians and by native peoples speaking an alien tongue. There was extension over into northern Mexico, with consequent travail when impotent governments crumbled. But in Arizona, in the valleys of the Little Colorado, the Salt, the Gila and the San Pedro and of their tributaries and at points where the white man theretofore had failed, if he had reached them ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... the travail of debt and death that rends the allied peoples runs the clear current of determination to retrieve the immense loss. War is waste; some one must pay—we among the rest. Already the guns are being ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson
... apostolic succession. We build on the past, and all the centuries of turmoil and travail which have gone before have made this moment possible. There has never been any such thing as "the fall of man"; for the march of the race has been a continual climb—a movement onward and upward. Were it not ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard


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