Both Uses of
travail
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- They couldn't understand that the sort of meal they took for granted, a thirty-minute production in the land of General Electric, translated here to a lifetime of travail.†
Chpt 2 *travail = difficult experience
- Never again will her life be free of travail and disappointment in her three blind mice.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(travail) a difficult experience -- especially one involving hard work or pain
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, travail can refer to a woman in labor during the birth of a baby.