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tra·vail (trə-vāĺ, trăv́āĺ)

[Middle English, from Old French, from travailler, to work hard, from Vulgar Latin* tripāliāre, to torture with a tripalium, from Late Latin tripālium, instrument of torture, probably from Latin tripālis, having three stakes, tri-, tri-, + pālus, stake.]

noun 

  1. Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil. See synonyms at work
  2. Tribulation or agony; anguish.
  3. The labor of childbirth.

intransitive verb: -vailed, -vail·ing, -vails. 

  1. To work strenuously; toil.
  2. To be in the labor of childbirth.