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De - Pt| English Dictionary: traveler | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for traveler | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sundowner \Sun"down`er\, n. A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also {traveler} and {swagman} (but not all swagmen are sundowners). Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then come in with the demand for unrefusable rations. --Francis Adams. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Traveler \Trav"el*er\, n. [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.) A traveling crane. See under {Crane}. 4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner. 5. (Naut.) 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}. | |
