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† fortravail, -vel, v. Obs.
[f. for- prefix1 + travail v.]
trans. To exhaust with labour.
c1305St. Kenelm 314 in E.E.P. (1862) 56 Fortrauailled hy were sore: þat hi moste slepe echon. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 326 The king saw that he..wes for-trawaillyt. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) ix. ii. 349/1 The fende..thre houres togydre..fortrauayled hym. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xviii. 20 His men of warre..were meruailously fortrauailed. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 129 The sutor-folk..Wi' flings fortravail'd and forfairn. |