noun parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
2. travail ·noun labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
3. travail ·noun to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
4. travail ·noun to labor with pain; to toil.
5. travail ·add. ·vi ·same·as travois.
6. travail ·vt to harass; to tire.