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f a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

ns of guidance. Same as Clew. You have wound a goodly clue. Shak. This clue once found unravels all the rest. Pope. Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke.

A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] -- To come to time. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and "time" is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Co…

iness. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

mployee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

rtation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepte…

o pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

a full knowledge. [Obs.] When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

ing stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia. A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. Lyell.

To unite; to connect. [Obs.] the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother. Sir T. browne.

A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.

ed to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

g able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel. Holland.

of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravelin.