The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TRAVAIL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result TRAVAIL
- Excessive effort, to traipse around Virginia!
- Trudge around V&A? It’s an ordeal
- Traipse around Virginia? That’s hard work
- Way to get to grips with a very hard labour
- Closing brief rant, back Labour
- Bible opening leads to struggle
- Dog kennels appreciative, volunteer starts work
- Labour Party clipped in the end
- Hunt to secure a vote, primarily, for Labour
- Labour: Tory oddly ready, but not able
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What does TRAVAIL mean?
TRAVAIL noun- Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
- Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
- An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
- The eclipse of a celestial object.
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- (in the plural) A series of journeys.
- (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- Labour; parturition; travail.
- A traditional North American Indian sled-like vehicle, pulled by person, dog, or horse.
- To toil.
- To go through the labor of childbirth.