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Traveller
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- 1 One who travels, especially to distant lands.
"They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill."
- 2 Ellipsis of Irish Traveller, a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland. Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"The auctioneer said he had no animus against Travellers but that some headstones verged on “monstrous”."
- 3 a person who changes location wordnet
- 4 A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company. dated
- 5 A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway.
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- 6 Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode. British
- 7 Alternative letter-case form of Traveller. Ireland, alt-of
"It provoked criticism for its portrayal of a woman who leaves her marriage for life with a solitary traveler. Irish women did not do those sorts of things, the audiences felt (although the plot came from a story told to Synge on Inis Meain)."
- 8 A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
- 9 One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
- 10 A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
- 11 A rail or track for a sliding curtain.
"That would detract from the austerity of Rudkin's study, and a curtain on a traveler is always slid across the stage […]"
- 12 A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.
"At the conclusion of play, the scores from all the travelers get entered into a computer."
- 13 A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place. US
"Nowhere else in the world had I seen such gigantic measures of liquor poured, such widespread enthusiasm for Bloodies and Mimosas on weekend mornings, or such firm insistence on giving sixteen-ounce Styrofoam cups loaded with iced liquor to guests leaving a party, so they might have a "traveler" for the drive home. At a bar in Yazoo City, the bartender asked me if I wanted to "go tall" with my bourbon on the rocks. I didn't know what he meant, but it sounded encouraging. "Sure," I said, "Let's go tall." He filled up a pint glass with ice. Then he filled it to the brim with bourbon. When I got up to leave with about half the drink gone, he poured the rest of it into a Styrofoam cup, assuming I would want a traveler."
Etymology
From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.
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