TRAVAILS
Noun
travails
plural of travail
Verb
travails
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of travail
Source: Wiktionary
TRAVAIL
Trav"ail (; 48), n. Etym: [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.]
1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
As everything of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker.
2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
Trav"ail, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.]
Etym: [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil,
torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n.]
1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which
will not travail for their livings." Latimer.
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Trav"ail, v. t
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition