travailing

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.]

1.To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." --Latimer. [1913 Webster]

2.To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. [1913 Webster]

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