1. (n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
2. (n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
3. (v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
4. (v. t.) To put in agony.
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