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Entry 6 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Travail

/trə-vālʹ/ · Trav·ail · IPA /tɹəˈveɪl/
01 n. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
  1. 1.
    Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
    “As everything of price, so this doth require travail.” — Hooker.
  2. 2.
    Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
02 n. Same as Travois.
  1. 1.
    Same as Travois. See: Travois
03 v. i. To labor with pain; to toil.
imp. & p. p. Travailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing
  1. 1.
    To labor with pain; to toil.[Archaic]
  2. 2.
    To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
04 v. t. To harass; to tire.
  1. 1.
    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.