noun
or trav·el·ler -v(ə)lə(r)
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English travellour, travaillour, from travellen, travailen to travel + -our -or
1. : one that travels: as
a. : one that goes on a trip or journey
the worst of travelers, detesting all modes of transportation — Agnes Repplier
specifically : one that travels to distant or unfamiliar places
b. dialect Britain : tramp
c. : traveling salesman
2. : something that travels fast or well (as a vehicle or draft animal)
3.
a. : an iron ring (as on the inboard block of the sheet of a fore-and-aft sail) that travels on a line, bar, or spar of a ship and slides thereon
b. or traveler iron : a bar or rod running transversely on the deck on which a ring in one end of the sheet or the block of a sheet tackle of a fore-and-aft sail travels back and forth — called also horse
4. : any of various devices (as a traveling crane) for carrying or suspending something being transported laterally ; especially : a crab or winch moved on an elevated track and used in erecting steel bridges or other large work
5. : a small metal clip that slides on the ring of a ring spinner and guides the yarn to the bobbin
6. : a stage curtain that is drawn across the proscenium — contrasted with drop curtain