travail

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil. See Synonyms at work.
2. n. Tribulation or agony; anguish.
3. n. The labor of childbirth.
4. v. To work strenuously; toil.
5. v. To be in the labor of childbirth.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Labor; toil; travel: same as travel, 1.
2. n. Labor in childbed; parturition.
3. To labor; toil; travel: same as travel, 1.
4. To labor in childbed; suffer the pangs of childbirth; be parturient.
5. n. A means of transportation, commonly used by North American Indians and voyageurs of the north and northwest, for the conveyance of goods or of sick or wounded persons. It consists of a rude litter made of two lodge-poles about 16 feet long, having one end of each pole attached on each side to a pack-saddle, the other end trailing on the ground. A kind of sack or bag is then made by lashing canvas or lodge-skins to the cross-bars, for the reception of the goods or the sick or wounded person. Also called travois, travee.

Wiktionary

1. n. Work, especially when arduous or painful; excessive labor, suffering. [from 13th c.]
2. n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth. [from 13th c.]
3. n. An act of working; labor (US), labour (British). [14th-18th c.]
4. n. The eclipse of a celestial object. [17th c.]
5. n. obsolete form of travel.
6. n. suffering, torment
7. v. To toil.
8. v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
2. n. Parturition; labor.
3. n. Same as travois.
4. v. To labor with pain; to toil.
5. v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
6. v. To harass; to tire.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
2. n. use of physical or mental energy; hard work
3. v. work hard