[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
travailed travailing travail 

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