To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker.
To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
To pass; to go; to move. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak.
To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." Milton.
To force to journey. [R.] They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. Spenser.
The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey. With long travel I am stiff and weary. Shak. His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden.
An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.
Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]
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