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Definition travail

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French travail (“suffering, torment”), from Vulgar Latin *tripalium (“an instrument of torture”), from Latin trip?lis (“having or propped up by three stakes”).

Noun

travail (plural travails or travaux)

1. (literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship. [from 13th c.]
2. Specifically, the labor of childbirth. [from 13th c.]
3. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British). [14th-18th c.]
4. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object. [17th c.]
5. Obsolete form of travel.
6. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”)

Verb

travail (third-person singular simple present travails, present participle travailing, simple past and past participle travailed)

1. To toil.
2. To go through the labor of childbirth.

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