n. (poetic/literary)
25B6; noun
years of bitter travail : ORDEALS, trials, tribulations, trials and tribulations, trouble, hardship, privation, stress; drudgery, toil, slog, effort, exertion, labour, work, endeavour, sweat, struggle.
a woman in travail : LABOUR, childbirth; contractions, labour pains; archaic childbed.