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ˈtravailer Obs. or arch.
Also 4–5 -our.
[ME. travailour, a. OF. travailleor one who harasses (a 1300 in Godef.), one who labours or travails (13th c.), agent-noun from travaillier: see travail v. and -er2 3.]
One who travails or labours; † one who torments or harasses.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 239 Alle trewe trauaillours and tilieres of þe erthe. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. lxvii. (1869) 101 He ne is but a turmentour and a trauailour of folk. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xx. 155 Earnest trauaillers for y⊇ peoples behouf and profite. 1598Stow Surv. 479 By profession busie Bees, and trauellers for their liuing in the Hiue of this common welth. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vi. §107 Thomas Talbot an exact trauailer in genealogies.
b. A woman in labour.
1388Wyclif 2 Kings xix. 3 Sones camen til to the child⁓beryng, and the traueler of childe hath not strengthis. |