arch. [f. TRAVAIL v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. TRAVAIL; laboring, toiling; labor of child-bearing; distress, fatigue, etc.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3487 (Cott.). In trauelling [v.rr. trauayling, -alyng] … Ful herd it was þair moder pain.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. VII. 235. With techinge or with tilynge or trauaylynge of hondes.
c. 1440. Alphabet of Tales, 402. He wiste not at sho was with childe to sho was evyn at travellyng.
1571. Digges, Pantom., II. vi. M iij b. No small ease and discharge of laborsom trauayling.
1859. J. Thomson, Cast. Indol., i. Long years of restless travailing.
