Traveler
['trævələ] or ['trævlɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who travels; one who has traveled much.
(n.) A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
(n.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
(n.) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
(n.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.
Checker: Norris
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tourist, passenger, voyager, itinerant, wayfarer
Typist: Naomi
Examples
- The path has been cut half-way round the fall to afford a complete view, but it ends abruptly, and the traveler has to return as he came. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ainsworth, travailleur (he meant traveler, I suppose,) Etats Unis. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Traveler’s Iron. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What was the past of this Trevor, pugilist, traveler, and gold-digger, and how had he placed himself in the power of this acid-faced seaman? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To-day this form of camera is a part of the luggage of every tourist, traveler, scientist, and dilletante. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- More surprising things happened to him in Palestine than ever happened to any traveler here or elsewhere since Munchausen died. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But doubtless we see the charm more clearly than the traveler himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mr. Bhaer sat looking about him with the air of a traveler who knocks at a strange door, and when it opens, finds himself at home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A nativ e boy, when asked by a traveler why they do this, had answered, Doggies catch otters, old women no. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But still I love the Old Travelers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But we love the Old Travelers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Sheik imposed guards upon travelers and charged them for it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I notice that all travelers supply deficiencies in their collections in the same way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Travelers are expected to pay for seeing them, and they do it cheerfully. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typed by Anton