Category:Traveler

Trav"el*er, n. Etym: [written also traveler.]

1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.

2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders For merchants, making collections, etc.

3. (mach.)

Defn: a traveling crane. See under crane.

4. (spinning)

Defn: the metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the Bobbin, in a ring spinner.

5. (naut.)

Defn: 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.