What does "traveler" mean?
Traveler: A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
Additional senses
- 2.(Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
- 3.(Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
- 4.(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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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