traveler: Meaning and Definition of

trav•el•er

1. a person or thing that travels.
2. a person who travels or has traveled in distant places or foreign lands.
3. See traveling salesman.
4. part of a mechanism constructed to move in a fixed course.
5. (in ring spinning) a small metal device that moves rapidly around the ring and guides the yarn onto the revolving bobbin.
1. a metal ring or thimble fitted to move freely on a rope, spar, or rod.
2. Also called horse. the rope, spar, or rod itself.
7. a transverse curtain opened by being drawn from both sides of the proscenium.
8. (often cap.) a member of any of a number of traditionally itinerant peoples of the British Isles and other English-speaking areas, including, in addition to people of Gypsy origin, autochthonous groups such as the speakers of Shelta.