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floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and ce…

To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The act of traveling post.