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▪ I. ˈtravailing, vbl. n. arch.
[f. travail v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. travail; labouring, toiling; labour of child-bearing; distress, fatigue, etc.
a1300Cursor M. 3487 (Cott.) In trauelling [v.rr. trauayling, -alyng]..Ful herd it was þair moderpain. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 235 With techinge or with tilynge or trauaylynge of hondes. c1440Alphabet of Tales 402 He wiste not at sho was with childe to sho was evyn at travellyng. 1571Digges Pantom. ii. vi. M iij b, No small ease and discharge of laborsom trauayling. 1859J. Thomson Cast. Indol. i, Long years of restless travailing.
▪ II. ˈtravailing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That travails.
1. Labouring, toiling, hard-working. Obs. or arch.
a1340Hampole Psalter viii. 7 Þa ere trauailand men gastly in haly kirke. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 3 [To] put this travailland warld in pes and rest. 1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 2 He was possessed with a mind trauelling, busie, & ambitious.
2. Of a woman: Suffering the pains of child-birth; in labour. Also fig.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1225 A womman trauaillynge was hire biforn. 1535Coverdale Isa. xlii. 14, I will crie like a trauelinge woman. 1641Milton Reorfin. ii. Wks. 1851 III. 69 Let her cast her Abortive Spawne without the danger of this travailling and throbbing Kingdome. 1657Trapp Comm. Esther vii. 8 The pains of a travelling woman.
†3. Tormenting, harassing. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xlviii. (Bodl. MS.), Þe same stone [jet] boþe blacke and ȝelow strengþeþ aȝens fantasies and aȝens..trauailinge fendes bi nyȝt. |