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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
travail /ˈtraveɪl/ literary

▶noun (also travails) painful or laborious effort.

■ labour pains.

▶verb undergo such effort or pain.

– origin ME: via OFr. from med. L. trepalium ‘instrument of torture’, from L. tres ‘three’ + palus ‘stake’.

'travail' also found in these Oxford entries:

travel - travois

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