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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Through French, fr. L.

trabs

trabis

, a beam; cf. OF.

tref

a beam, also F.

travail

a frame to confine a horse, OE.

trave

trevys

travise

, It.

travaglio

, F.

travée

the space between two beams.]

(Arch.)

A crossbeam; a lay of joists.

Maundrell.

A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.

She sprung as a colt doth in the

trave

Chaucer.