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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.

ver 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.

To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. Locke.…

difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

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

A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.

A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. [U.S.]

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.

To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.] Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. Sir T. Browne.

on, 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.

One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. "Posters of the sea and land." Shak.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.