Hypertext Webster Gateway: "traveler"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Traveler \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}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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

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