1.
[syn: traveler, traveller]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Traveler \Trav"el*er\, n. [Written also traveler.]
1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.
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2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of
receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
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3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
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4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring
surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
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5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like,
and sliding thereon.
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Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing
plant with white flowers.
Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
traveler
n 1: a person who changes location [syn: traveler,
traveller]