Travailed

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Travail \Trav"ail\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Travailed}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Travailing}.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier,
     travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to
     torment, agitate. See {Travail}, n.]
     1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons
        which will not travail for their livings." --Latimer.


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     2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
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