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travail
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Travail \Trav"ail\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n.]
To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] ``Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings.''
--Latimer.To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Travail \Trav"ail\, v. t. 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.
Travail \Trav"ail\ (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. Trave). Cf. Travel.]
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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
As everything of price, so this doth require travail.
--Hooker. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
Travail \Tra`vail"\, n. [Cf. F. travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. Travail, v. i.] Same as Travois.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"labor, toil," mid-13c., from Old French travail "work, labor, toil, suffering or painful effort, trouble; arduous journey" (12c.), from travailler "to toil, labor," originally "to trouble, torture, torment," from Vulgar Latin *tripaliare "to torture," from *tripalium (in Late Latin trepalium) "instrument of torture," probably from Latin tripalis "having three stakes" (from tria "three;" see three + palus "stake;" see pale (n.)), which sounds ominous, but the exact notion is obscure. The verb is recorded from late 13c. in English, from the verb in Old French.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship. (from 13th c.) 2 Specifically, the labor of childbirth. (from 13th c.) 3 (context obsolete countable English) An act of working; labor (qualifier: US), labour (qualifier: British). (14th-18th c.) 4 (context obsolete English) The eclipse of a celestial object. (17th c.) 5 (obsolete form of travel English) 6 (alt form travois English) (qualifier a kind of sled English) vb. 1 To toil. 2 To go through the labor of childbirth.
WordNet
n. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, childbed]
use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat]
v. work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
Wikipedia
Travail was a Christian nu metal / rapcore band based in the Dallas/ Fort Worth area in Texas. Fronted by Matt Leslie, it had an intense following at Club 412, a local church-sponsored lounge and music venue located in southwest Fort Worth. Stylistic comparisons were often drawn between their sound and that of secular rock acts popular at the time such as Korn and Limp Bizkit. The band was signed on Pluto Records and then were picked up by national label Metro One. After releasing their second album, Beautiful Loneliness, on the Metro One label, Travail received a nomination for the 2001 Dove Awards in the Hard Music Recorded Song category. Before touring much under the new label, however, Travail broke up. Their most requested song, "Judge Me" is still a very popular song and the video for "Return" is still a popular video among those who enjoy the rapcore/nu metal genre. Guitarist Aaron Wiese later joined the band Spoken, but left in 2008.
Members Matt Leslie, Brian Hoover, Daniel McKay, and Duane Smith have started a new band with Travis Knight as their second guitarist. The new band is called "Southern Train Gypsy".
is a 2002 Japanese romance comedy drama film directed by Kentarō Ōtani and starring Asaka Seto, Shinya Tsukamoto and Mikako Ichikawa. It was released on 23 March 2002.
Travail may refer to:
- Travail (band), an American Christian nu-metal band, and the title of its 1999 album
- Travail (film), a 2002 Japanese film
- Travail, a 1901 novel by Émile Zola
- Labour/Le Travail, a Canadian academic journal, published since 1976
- Le Travail-Le Droit du Peuple, two French language newspapers in Switzerland, published from 1917 to 1940
- Le Travail Movement, an anti-colonialism movement in Vietnam from September 1936 to April 1937
Usage examples of "travail".
Faites donc en sorte que sa bonne figure vous soit comme un soleil au coeur, et vous fortifie dans votre travail de vivant.
O mighty and enduring force of early associations, that almost seems, in its unconquerable strength, to partake of an innate prepossession, that binds the son to the mother who concealed him in her womb and purchased life for him with the travail of death?
In short, as I accepted the rising of the sun, I accepted that up above me was all that was fine and noble and gracious, all that gave decency and dignity to life, all that made life worth living and that remunerated one for his travail and misery.
Religion as merely revelation and in its endeavour to find a rational basis for faith set God apart from His world, detached, unheeding and offering no real recourse to a travailing humanity between whom and Himself it built a rigid fabric of impersonal law.
They had to shake me awake to tell me, for I had again been reliving my own onetime experience of such travail and, to ameliorate it, had drunk three or four bottles of Barolo and succumbed into blessed oblivion.
Cecil flattered and cajoled him, portrayed England as a place of civility and charm, a featherbed into which James could at last relax after all the stony travails of his Scottish youth.
Tranquility, luxury, and repose were invented for pampered courtiers, but travail, tribulation, and arms were invented and created only for those whom the world calls knights errant, and I, although unworthy, am the least of that number.
Albertine who was sad and travailed not to show it, who was brave and good and adored him, Albertine the best of women, whom he no longer loved.
The highest poetic feeling of which we are now conscious, springs not from the beholding of perfected beauty, but from the mute sympathy which the creation with all its children manifests with us in the groaning and travailing which look for the sonship.
At last we were out of the house, rushing through the mud, slush, and half-melted snow, along the wooden track to the railway, laden with bags and coats, and deafened by that melancholy, wailing sound, as though of a huge polar shebear in the pangs of travail upon an iceberg, which proceeds from an American railway-engine before it commences its work.
TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD I Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, And though thy birth-hour beckons thee, Sleep the long sleep: The Doomsters heap Travails and teens around us here, And Time-wraiths turn our songsingings to fear.
One birth alone Sufficeth not, Clymene: once again You must give life with travail and strong pain.
Thus he knew that his mother had always cared for his younger brother more than himand how not, when he had been her first experience of the humiliating sickness of pregnancy, the agony and travail of childbearing, and the pesky, persistent labor of looking after infant, toddler, No and Why!
It was a relief to him, even though the one lady talked about nothing but the travails of having six daughters to bring out when one would like nothing better than to remain on one’s own country estate all year long, and the other tittered and commiserated with him over the fact that he had to keep two matrons company when he would doubtless far prefer to be seated by someone younger and prettier.
On which, the mother of my flesh being much troubled,-since she, with a heart pure in Thy faith, travailed in birth 88 more lovingly for my eternal salvation,-would, had I not quickly recovered, have without delay provided for my initiation and washing by Thy life-giving sacraments, confessing Thee, O Lord Jesus, for the remission of sins.