travail

noun

Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil. synonym: work.

noun

Tribulation or agony; anguish.

noun

The labor of childbirth.

intransitive verb

To work strenuously; toil.

intransitive verb

To be in the labor of childbirth.

To labor; toil; travel: same as travel, 1.

To labor in childbed; suffer the pangs of childbirth; be parturient.

noun

Labor; toil; travel: same as travel, 1.

noun

Labor in childbed; parturition.

noun

A means of transportation, commonly used by North American Indians and voyageurs of the north and northwest, for the conveyance of goods or of sick or wounded persons.