Definition of Travail

Noun: travail tru'veyl

Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
"she was in travail for six hours";
- parturiency, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], confinement, lying-in, childbed [archaic]
Use of physical or mental energy; hard work
"he got an A for travail";
- effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat

Verb: travail tru'veyl

Work hard
"Lexicographers travail all day long";
- labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], toil, fag, grind, drudge, dig, moil [N. Amer]