Available Definitions:
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.