VAGABOND

[noun] [C] [esp. old use or literary] - a person who has no home and usually no job, and who travels from place to place, esp., in the past, one who was thought to be of low worthA series of laws in 16th century England specified how idle vagabonds were to be dealt with.They live a vagabond life/existence, travelling around in a caravan.Vagabond children live on the streets of the city.Compare vagrant.