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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
travail
n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of
contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for
six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour,
confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed]
2: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for
effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn:
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat]
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor,
labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge,
dig, moil]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Travail \Tra`vail"\, n. [Cf. F. travail, a frame for confining a
horse, or OF. travail beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. Travail,
v. i.]
Same as Travois.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Travail \Trav"ail\, v. 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, n.]
1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons
which will not travail for their livings." --Latimer.
[1913 Webster]
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
[1913 Webster]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Travail \Trav"ail\, v. t.
To harass; to tire. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to
travail the realm, a great division fell among the
nobility. --Hayward.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Travail \Trav"ail\ (?; 48), n. [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.
[1913 Webster]
As everything of price, so this doth require
travail. --Hooker.
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2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
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6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing.
2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of
child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460.
3. In some states, to render the mother of a bastard child a competent
witness in the prosecution of the alleged father, she must have accused him
of being the father during the time of her travail. 2 Root, R. 490; 1 Root,
R. 107; 2 Mass. R. 443; 5 Mass. R. 518; 8 Greenl. R. 163; 3 N. H. Rep. 135;
6 Greenl. R. 460. But in Connecticut, when the state prosecutes, the mother
is competent, although she did not accuse the father during her travail. 1
Day, R. 278.
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Thesaurus Results for travail:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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