2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
TRAVAIL
Trav"ail, v. t
Defn: 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.
TRAVAILOUS
Trav"ail*ous, a.
Defn: Causing travail; laborious. [Obs.] Wyclif.
— Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Wyclif.
TRAVE Trave, n. Etym: [Through French, fr. L. trabs, trabis, a beam; cf. OF. tref a beam, also F. travail a frame to confine a horse, OE. trave, trevys, travise, It. travaglio, F. travée the space between two beams.]
1. (Arch.)
Defn: A crossbeam; a lay of joists. Maundrell.
2. A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing. She sprung as a colt doth in the trave. Chaucer.
TRAVEL
Trav"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveled or Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Traveling or Travelling.] Etym: [Properly, to labor, and the same
word as travail.]