Word: traveller Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹævələ/, /ˈtɹævlə/, /ˈtɹævəlɚ/, /ˈtɹævl̩ɚ/ 1. One who travels, especially to distant lands. Example: 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. Example: This Book will make a Travailer of thee, / If by its Counſel thou wilt ruled be; / It will direct thee to the Holy Land, / If thou wilt its Directions understand: / Yea, it will make the ſloathful, active be; / The Blind alſo, delightful things to ſee. 2. A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company. Labels: dated 3. Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode. Labels: UK 4. Alternative letter-case form of Traveller. Labels: Ireland, alt-of Example: 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). Example: Kevin chases after him through a forest and finds the horse with Joseph Maguire (Ian Holm), a poetry-reciting traveler (Irish gypsy). 5. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process. 6. One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches. 7. A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging. 8. A rail or track for a sliding curtain. Example: That would detract from the austerity of Rudkin's study, and a curtain on a traveler is always slid across the stage […] 9. A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores. Example: At the conclusion of play, the scores from all the travelers get entered into a computer. 10. A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place. Labels: US Example: 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. 11. Part of the apparatus in various fiber spinning processes (for spinning fiber to thread or yarn); several types exist. Example: ring traveler Example: ring traveller