travail
travail is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is travail.
- What is parturition; labor; as, an easy travail called?
- What is to labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer called?
- What is to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor called?
- What is 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 called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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