Travail
Trav´ail
TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing.
2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of
child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460.
3. In some states, to render the mother of a bastard child a competent
witness in the prosecution of the alleged father, she must have accused him
of being the father during the time of her travail. 2 Root, R. 490; 1 Root,
R. 107; 2 Mass. R. 443; 5 Mass. R. 518; 8 Greenl. R. 163; 3 N. H. Rep. 135;
6 Greenl. R. 460. But in Connecticut, when the state prosecutes, the mother
is competent, although she did not accuse the father during her travail. 1
Day, R. 278.
accouchement,
be confined,
bear,
bear a child,
bear young,
birth,
birth throes,
birthing,
blessed event,
calve,
cast,
childbearing,
childbed,
childbirth,
confinement,
delivery,
dig,
dirty work,
donkeywork,
drop,
drudge,
drudgery,
employment,
fag,
farrow,
fatigue,
fawn,
foal,
genesis,
give birth,
giving birth,
grind,
grub,
hammer,
hammer away,
handiwork,
handwork,
hatching,
have,
have a baby,
have young,
having a baby,
industry,
kitten,
labor,
lamb,
lick,
lick of work,
lie in,
litter,
manual labor,
moil,
multiparity,
nascency,
nativity,
pains,
parturition,
peg,
peg away,
plod,
plug,
plug along,
plug away,
plugging,
pound away,
pup,
rat race,
scut work,
slavery,
slog,
spadework,
stroke,
stroke of work,
struggle,
sweat,
task,
the Nativity,
the stork,
throw,
tiresome work,
toil,
treadmill,
wade through,
whelp,
work,
work away,
yean