/treuh vayl", trav"ayl/ , n.
1. painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
2. pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship.
3. the pain of childbirth.
v.i.
4. to suffer the pangs of childbirth; be in labor.
5. to toil or exert oneself.
[ 1200-50; (v.) ME travaillen travaillier to torment trepaliare to torture, deriv. of LL trepalium torture chamber, lit., instrument of torture made with three stakes (see TRI-, PALE 2 ); (n.) ME travailler ]
Syn. 1. labor, moil. 2. torment, agony.