Traveler to Treadboard
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.
Travel-tainted
(Trav"el-taint`ed) a. Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Obs.] Shak.
Travers
(Trav"ers) adv. [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers, en travers, de travers, across,
athwart. See Traverse, a.] Across; athwart. [Obs.]
The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another.
Ld. Berners. Traversable
(Trav"ers*a*ble) a.
1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.
2. Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment. Sir M. Hale.
Traverse
(Trav"erse) a. [OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn or direct across. See
Transverse, and cf. Travers.] Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut
with traverse trenches.
Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
Sir H. Wotton.
The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
Hayward. Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion
back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.
Traverse
(Trav"erse) adv. Athwart; across; crosswise.
Traverse
(Trav"erse), n. [F. traverse. See Traverse, a.]
1. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Specifically: —
(a) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it
not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
(b) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
Men drinken and the travers draw anon.
Chaucer.
And the entrance of the king,
The first traverse was drawn.
F. Beaumont. (c) (Arch.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. Gwilt.
