Found 2 items, similar to travail.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: travail travail n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; “she was in labor for six hours” [syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, 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, sweat] v : work hard; “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long” [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Travail 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] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail. [1913 Webster] 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.]