Definition for TRAV'AIL

TRAV'AIL, v.i. [Fr. travailler; W. travaelu, to toil; a compound of W. tra, that is, tras, L. trans, over, beyond, and mael, work, Eng. moil; It. travagliare; Sp. trabajar.]

  1. To labor with pain; to toil.
  2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in parturition. Gen. xxxv.

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