travail : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: travail	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for travail
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
travail n concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" Synonym(s): parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" Synonym(s): effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat v work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" Synonym(s): labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. --Hooker. 2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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] [bd]Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings.[b8] --Latimer. 2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Travail \Trav"ail\, v. t. 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.