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Webster 1913 Edition


Traveler

Trav′el-er

,
Noun.
[Written also
traveler
.]
1.
One who travels; one who has traveled much.
2.
A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
3.
(Mach.)
A traveling crane. See under
Crane
.
4.
(Spinning)
The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
5.
(Naut.)
An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.
Traveler’s joy
(Bot.)
,
the
Clematis vitalba
, a climbing plant with white flowers.
Traveler's tree
.
(Bot.)

Webster 1828 Edition


Traveler

TRAV'ELER

,
Noun.
1.
One who travels in any way. Job:31.
2.
One who visits foreign countries.
3.
In ships, an iron thimble or thimbles with a rope spliced round them, forming a kind of tail or a species of grommet.

Definition 2024


traveler

traveler

English

Noun

traveler (plural travelers)

  1. American standard spelling of traveller.
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
      Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

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