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An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

Parior caretc. , (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers.

A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.

y drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

load, or Cartload, as much as will fill or load a cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load. -- Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope. -- To put (or get or set) the cart be…

Same as Caravel.

A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.

A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track.

A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.

Tea; -- the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

Gravel or pebbles. Halliwell.

itious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil. Gardner.

To travel around. [Obs.] "Having circuited the air." T. Warton.

One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. [R.] R. Whitlock.

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.