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Webster 1913 Edition

Travail

Trav′ail

(?; 48)
,
Noun.
[F.
travail
; cf. Pr.
trabalh
,
trebalh
, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL.
trepalium
a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L.
trabs
a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from
trabs
(cf.
Trave
). Cf.
Travel
.]
1.
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
As everything of price, so this doth require
travail
.
Hooker.
2.
Parturition; labor;
as, an easy
travail
.

Trav′ail

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Travailed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Travailing
.]
[F.
travailler
, OF.
traveillier
,
travaillier
, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr.
trebalhar
to torment, agitate. See
Travail
,
Noun.
]
1.
To labor with pain; to toil.
[Archaic]
“Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings.”
Latimer.
2.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

Trav′ail

,
Verb.
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.
Hayward.

Webster 1828 Edition

Travail

TRAV'AIL

,
Verb.
I.
[L. trans, over, beyond, and mael, work; Eng. moil.]
1.
To labor with pain; to toil.
2.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. Gen.35.

TRAV'AIL

,
Verb.
T.
To harass; to tire; as troubles sufficient to travail the realm. [Not in use.]

TRAV'AIL

,
Noun.
Labor with pain; severe toil.
As every thing of price, so doth this require travail.
1.
Labor in childbirth; as a severe travail; an easy travail.

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