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Pronunciation : Trav"el*er
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Written also traveler.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913