1. (n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion\.

2. (n.) Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

3. (n.) To labor with pain; to toil.

4. (n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

5. (v. t.) To harass; to tire.

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