traveller

noun travellers · traveler

1. One who travels, especially to distant lands. 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 w
2. dated A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
3. UK Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
4. Ireland Alternative letter-case form of Traveller 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).
5. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.

   Similar: router

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. 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. At the conclusion of play, the scores from all the travelers get entered into a computer.
10. US A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place. 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
11. Part of the apparatus in various fiber spinning processes (for spinning fiber to thread or yarn); several types exist. ring traveler

Similar: wayfarer, bird of passage, gadabout, itinerant, peregrinator, rambler, rover, traveller, voyager, wanderer

noun Travellers · Traveler

1. Ireland, UK, abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Irish Traveller, a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland. The auctioneer said he had no animus against Travellers but that some headstones verged on “monstrous”.
2. A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway, formerly consisting of two clans: those of Romani descent ("the Greater Travellers", who spoke Romani Traveller Norwegian) and those of Norwegian descent (who spoke a cant called Rodi).