Traveler

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Traveler \Trav"el*er\, n. [Written also traveler.]
     1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of
        receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under {Crane}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring
        surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like,
        and sliding thereon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Traveler's joy} (Bot.), the {Clematis vitalba}, a climbing
        plant with white flowers.
  
     {Traveler's tree}. (Bot.) See {Ravenala}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  traveler
       n : a person who changes location [syn: {traveller}]