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Definition of Travails

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 Travails from wikipedia

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- Travail, famille, patrie was the tripartite motto of Vichy France during World War II. It had replaced the republican motto Liberté, égalité, fraternité...
- The Inspection du travail (IT, Labour inspection) is a specialist agency of the French civil service, responsible for investigating employment conditions...
- Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries (French: Napoléon dans son cabinet de travail aux Tuileries) is an 1812 painting by Jacques-Louis David. It shows French...
- The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC (French: Congrès du travail du Canada or CTC) is a national trade union centre, the central labour body in Canada...
- Labour/Le Travail is an academic journal which publishes articles on the labour movement in Canada, sociology, labour economics, and employment relations...
- The Division of Labour in Society (French: De la division du travail social) is the doctoral dissertation of the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, published...
- 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...