a. Obs. [f. TRAVAIL sb.1 + -SOME.] Laborious; wearisome; toilsome.
1549. Chaloner, Erasm. on Folly, O iv b. A travailsome and carefull life.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 911. Ashamed … of their trauelsome idlenesse.
1617. J. Moore, Mappe Mans Mort., II. vi. 137. Certaine sorrow, vncertaine pleasure, trauelsome labour, fearefull rest.
