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Definition of Travail
Travail

Same as Travois.

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

To labor with pain; to toil.

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

To harass; to tire.

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Travail Quotations

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.
John L. Lewis

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Jim Bishop

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser

Travail Translations

travail in German is sich abrackern


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