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One who ravels.

An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. -- Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.

The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.

Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.

e land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.

r, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.

A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [Turkey]

A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak.

Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers pass away the time.

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

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A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.

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

siness. 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.

employee 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.

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

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.

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