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A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

To practice walking; to travel on foot.

To travel over or through. [Obs.]

To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

The act of perambulating; traversing. Bacon.

over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.

To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.

A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. "His peregrination abroad." Bacon.

One who peregrinates; one who travels about.

Travel; wandering. [R.] Carlyle.

The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13.

A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.

or connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.

group of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave.

eral, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.

To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak.

force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.

ion, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.