traveller

noun

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 wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.”

   “This Book will make a Travailer of thee, / If by its Counſel thou wilt ruled be; / It will direct thee to the Holy Land, / If thou wilt its Directions understand: / Yea, it will make the ſloathful, active be; / The Blind alſo, delightful things to ſee.”

   “The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.”

2. (dated)A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
3. (British)Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
4. (Ireland, alt-of)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).”

   “Kevin chases after him through a forest and finds the horse with Joseph Maguire (Ian Holm), a poetry-reciting traveler (Irish gypsy).”

   “...settled Irish people of Southern Ireland treat the traveler boys with racist hostility (2001 180–81).”

5. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
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.
11. Part of the apparatus in various fiber spinning processes (for spinning fiber to thread or yarn); several types exist.

    “ring traveler”

    “ring traveller”

12. (Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, 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”.”

13. A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway.