Trav"el*er (?), n. [Written also traveler.]
1.
One who travels; one who has traveled much.
2.
A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
3. Mach.
A traveling crane. See under Crane.
4. Spinning
The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
5. 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.
© Webster 1913.