travail
IPA: trʌvˈeɪɫ
noun
- (literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
- Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
- (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
- (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
- Obsolete form of travel. [The act of traveling; passage from place to place.]
- Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”) [(originally and chiefly Canada, US, historical) A frame, often consisting of two poles tied together at one end to form a V-shaped structure with the vertex attached to a dog, horse, etc., or held by a person and the other ends touching the ground, which was used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land.]
verb
- To toil.
- To go through the labor of childbirth.
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Examples of "travail" in Sentences
- Who caused the travail
- He overcame the travail.
- This was travail for them.
- The travails had only just begun.
- He is responsible for the travail.
- He is proud of himself for bearing the travail.
- Sorry for the travail of woe I've subjected the project to.
- It revolves around the travails of an aspiring teenage swimmer.
- Can anyone of you heal the wounds of a nation in travail without God
- Seventeen years of labor and travail transpired prior to its publication.