As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm,
a great division fell among the nobility.
Hayward.
Trav"ail*ous (?), a. Causing travail; laborious. [Obs.] Wyclif. —
Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Trave (?), n. [Through French, fr. L. trabs, trabis, a beam; cf. OF.
tref a beam, also F. travail a frame to confine a horse, OE. trave,
trevys, travise, It. travaglio, F. travée the space between two beams.]
1. (Arch.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists. Maundrell.