TRAVELER

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

2.
n.

A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

3.
n.

A traveling crane. See under Crane.

4.
n.

The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

5.
n.

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.) See Ravenala.


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