Definition of Travail. Meaning of Travail. Synonyms of Travail

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Definition of Travail

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.
Travail
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.] 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.
Travail
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. 2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Travail
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.

Meaning of Travail from wikipedia

- Look up travail in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Travail may refer to: Travail (band), an American Christian nu-metal band, and the title of its 1999...
- Beau Travail (pronounced [bo tʁa.vaj], French for "good work") is a 1999 French film directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's...
- France Travail (English: France Work), previously Pôle emploi (French pronunciation: [pol ɑ̃plwa]; English: employment centre), is a French governmental...
- Travail.Suisse is a trade union federation in Switzerland. The federation was formed in December 2002 by the merger of the Christian National Union Confederation...
- The Congolese Party of Labour (French: Parti congolais du travail, PCT) is the ruling party of the Republic of the Congo. Founded in 1969 by Marien Ngouabi...
- Travail was an American, Christian nu metal/metalcore band based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas. Fronted by Matt Leslie, it had an intense following...
- The Bourse du Travail (French for "labour exchanges"), a French form of the labour council, were working class organizations that encouraged mutual aid...
- The General Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT) is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of...
- Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération française démocratique du travail, CFDT) is a national trade union center, one of the five major French confederations...
- Labour/Le Travail is an academic journal which publishes articles on the labour movement in Canada, sociology, labour economics, and employment relations...