Definitions
use of physical or mental energy; hard work
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English travail, borrowed from Old French travail (“suffering, torment”), deverbal from travailler, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre (“to torment”), from tripālium (“torture device”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of travel and travois.
Used in a sentence
“Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. […]”
“But as every thing of price, so this doth require travail.”
“Travell and pleasure, most unlike in nature, are notwithstanding followed together by a kind of I wot not what natural conjunction[…].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Hard toil”7 letters
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