n. 分娩的痛苦, 阵痛, 辛劳

vi. 发生阵痛, 辛劳

[医] 分娩, 生产

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.

2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.


Travail \Trav"ail\, v. t.
To harass; to tire. [Obs.]

As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to
travail the realm, a great division fell among the
nobility. --Hayward.


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.

As everything of price, so this doth require
travail. --Hooker.

2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.


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.]