What does "travail" mean?
Travail: Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
Additional senses
- 2.To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer.
- 3.To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
- 4.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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