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▪ I. travel, n.|ˈtræv(ə)l|
Forms: α. 4 travall, Sc. trawaile, -ale, 4–5 Sc. trawaill, trauaille, 4–7 -aile, 5 Sc. trawal, 5–7 trau-, travayle, 5–8 travail, 6 trauaylle, -eile, travaill, Sc. travale, 6–7 -aile. β. 5 Sc. trawel(l, 5–7 trauel(l, travell, (6 trauyll), 5– travel, (9 Sc. traivel).
[orig. the same word as travail n.1, in a specialized sense and form; the latter due to shifting of stress.]
†1. Labour, toil; suffering, trouble; labour of child-birth, etc.: see travail n.1 1–6.
2. a. The action of travelling or journeying.
αc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxv. (Julian) 9 Þe trawalouris..for trawale ware wery. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) viii. 28 Þe way es comoun and wele ynogh knawen with all men þat vsez trauaile. c1460Towneley Myst. xiv. 94 That I may haue som beyldyng by, In my trauayll. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxv. 36 Way stricht, cler dicht, to wilsome wicht, That irke bene in travale. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. (1577) E j b, After a yeares trauayle abrode. 1660Blount Boscobel i. (1680) 49 His feet..much galled with travail.
β1375Barbour Bruce (MS. 1487) iv. 664 My twa sonnys with ȝow sall I Send to tak with ȝow ȝour trawell [rime fale]. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxii. 65 Huon was wery of trauyll. a1550Freiris of Berwik 65 in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 287, I pray grit God him speid Him haill and sound in-to his travell. 1584B. R. tr. Herodotus i. 33 The way is short, & the trauell easye. 1650in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 464 The wayes are everywhere unsafe for travell. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) I. 72 (The Rose) The advantage of travel..was by seeing a great deal both of men and manners. 1897Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 2/3 Continental travel is looking up. By travel we mean quick and comfortable travel.
b. With a and pl. An act of travelling; a journey. Now only in pl., except dial.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse Pref. A v b, His eloquence, prudence,..and other like vertues..insued of hys peregrinations, and travails. 1610Day Festivals iii. (1615) 56 He made (as it were) foure Travailes. a1700Dryden Theodore & Hon. 57 His travels ended at his country seat. 1753C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 84, I was unwilling he should undertake such a travel. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 182 In mortal wisdom, thou'st already ran A circled travel of eternity. 1836H. Coleridge North. Worthies (1852) I. 6 Soon after we find him on his travels in Italy. 1883Cleland Inchbracken iv. 28 Ye've had a sore traivel. a1905in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., (Westmoreland) Es ya wad see in a day's travel.
c. pl. (ellipt.) ‘Account of occurrences and observations of a journey into foreign parts’ (J.).
[1591(title) The Rare Trauailes of Iob Hortop.] 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Travels, Journeys, Voyages; or a Book giving a particular Account of such Voyages. 1710Tatler No. 254 ⁋1 There are no Books which I more delight in than in Travels. 1817Malthus Popul. (ed. 5) II. iii. viii. 387 Some very intelligent Travels..written in 1810. 1841Elphinstone Hist. India I. 255 We possess the travels of a native of that country in India in the fourth century. Mod. He took Gulliver's Travels with him on his journey.
d. transf. Passage of anything in its course or path, or over a distance; movement.
1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 713 [A comet] revisits earth, From the long travel of a thousand years. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 701/2 The more the variety of characters is multiplied, the more ‘travel’ of the compositor's hand over the cases is necessary for picking them up. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 843 Cardiomotive force is equal to the output of the heart plus the resistance to the travel of the blood in the vascular system.
e. Passage over; traffic. rare.
1830Hood Haunted H. i. xviii, Each walk as green as is the mantled pool For want of human travel.
3. A single movement of some part of mechanism, as a piston, slide-valve, etc.; also, the distance through which it moves; length of stroke.
1841Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 251/2 To find..the travel of the valve corresponding to the travel..of the piston substitute. 1883Times 8 Feb., A thin copper rod moved slowly backwards and forwards over them, with a travel of about 2 in. 1892Greener Breech-Loader 32 When the gun is fired the ‘travel’ of the mainspring is utilised as an automatically acting trigger. 1904Westm. Gaz. 2 May 9/3 The incoming of ‘three colour [printing] at one travel of paper’.
4. Capacity or force of movement.
1816Scott Antiq. xxx, The breaker was never able to bring her under command. She has more travel than any bitch I ever knew. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 625 A dog of high travel..will drive [sheep] hither and thither. 1892Daily News 31 Dec. 3/4 A crew of men in the boat kept her rocking rapidly from side to side to give her more force and travel.
5. attrib. and Comb., as travel article, travel bag, travel-book, travel film, travel literature, travel-monger, travel permit, travel poster, travel ticket, travel time, travel voucher, travel warrant; objective, as travel editor, travel-reader, travel-writer; travel-loving, travel-minded adjs.; instrumental, as travel-broken, travel-disordered, travel-soiled, travel-spent, travel-stained, travel-tainted, travel-tattered, travel-tired, travel-toiled, travel-wearied, travel-weary, travel-worn adjs.; travel agency, a firm which makes arrangements for the transport, accommodation, etc., of travellers, and which acts as an agent for tour-operators (see tour n. 12); travel agent, one who owns or works for a travel agency; travel allowance, (a) the amount of money given to a traveller to cover the expenses of a journey; (b) under the Exchange Control Bill, the maximum amount of money travellers were allowed to take out of the U.K. during the period 1946–80; travel brochure, a booklet advertising travel and describing the features and amenities of holiday resorts or other places of travel; travel bug colloq., a strong urge to travel (cf. bug n.2 3 a); travel bureau = travel agency above; travel document, a document required for travel; spec. a document allowing foreign travel, held by one not entitled to a passport; travel folder = travel brochure above; travel sickness, nausea induced by the motion of a vehicle; carsickness; hence travel-sick a. affected by travel sickness; travel trailer U.S., a variety of caravan.
1927World Travel Oct. 39/2 (Advt.), Imperial Airways. Daily Services Between London Cologne Brussels Paris... Book through any *Travel Agency or direct with the Company. 1975B. Bainbridge Sweet William iii. 79 He was going to get brochures from a travel agency. He thought they should all go to Spain.
[1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 227/2 Cook, Thomas (1808–1892), travelling agent, was born at Melbourne in Derbyshire.] 1925Times 1 May 2/2 (Advt.), Write to-day for your copy of ‘Economy Tours to America’, to..leading *Travel agents. 1980S. Brett Dead Side of Mike vi. 61 Toby Root played a travel agent.
1937*Travel allowance [see second a. 6 b]. 1951Ann. Reg. 1950 iv. 453 The basic annual travel allowances were increased in December to {pstlg}100 for adults. 1978A. Waugh Best Wine Last xviii. 237 In 1947..the meagre travel allowance was again reduced.
1895Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 7/1 A literary man who writes *travel articles in the Anglo-American magazines.
1939–40Army & Navy Stores Catal. 875/2 Popular *travel bag, with..passport pocket. 1968L. Deighton Only when I Larf i. 9 Umbrella in one hand, travel bag in the other, he marched off.
1843Dickens Let. 2 Nov. (1974) III. 591 The *travel-book, if to be done at all, would cost me very little trouble. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 60 That rare nook..touched on by no travel-book.
1953P. Scott Alien Sky i. vi. 75 A plan I have to issue highly coloured *travel brochures with a photo of myself on an elephant. 1972F. Warner Maquettes 42 A copy⁓writer for the travel brochures.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xx. 205 The condition of my own *travel-broken animals.
1976P. Cave High Flying Birds i. 13 The *travel bug. Ants in your suitcase.
1930E. Waugh Labels iii. 51 Their speech is rich with the words of the *travel bureau's advertising manager. 1966A. K. Train Spoken like Frenchman 94 (heading) At a travel bureau.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop xlvi, Dusty shoes, and *travel-disordered dress.
1963Listener 14 Feb. 281/2 Soblen, provided with an Israeli *travel document valid for travel to any country except Israel, left by air. 1980E. Behr Getting Even xiv. 166 He was not to volunteer information about the man's travel documents.
1910Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1054/2 ‘Clonsilla’ En Pension... Recommended by *Travel Editor of ‘Queen’. 1977Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. iv. 19/5 Travel Editor Holt was born and reared in West Virginia.
1922*Travel film [see scenic n. 2]. 1978A. Waugh Best Wine Last ix. 107 Marrakesh has been a subject of many articles and travel films.
1955W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. v. 488 A tour from a *travel folder. 1980D. Bloodworth Trapdoor xii. 68 The secluded Kahala Hilton with its sun-swept beach..could have been torn straight out of a travel folder.
1934*Travel literature [see courtesy card s.v. courtesy n. 12]. 1955E. Blunden Addresses on General Subjects 285 It is an example of the prolific travel-literature of England.
1932*Travel-minded [see minded ppl. a. 4 c]. 1962John o' London's 1 Mar. 202/1 Everyone these days is travel-minded.
1768Baretti Mann. & Cust. Italy II. 324 Credit your *travel-mongers about the character of the Italians.
1942M. Cable Gobi Desert 245 It was no longer he who issued the *travel permits and received official visits. 1978T. Willis Buckingham Palace Connection v. 96 The British Vice-Consul..had promised to get her the necessary travel permit.
1958Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 22/5 This is no excuse for a *travel-poster jacket and flamboyant title. 1979R. Jeffries Murder begets Murder xv. 91 Sun from dawn to dusk just like the travel posters had promised.
1959Times 13 July 9/1 Some of the children will be *travel-sick. 1978Times 30 Dec. 4/4, I felt travel sick as we were driving along the lane.
1900Dorland Med. Dict. 710/2 *Travel-sickness... Same as Car-sickness. 1941W. Graham Night Journey xx. 246, I was talking to your husband on the problem of travel sickness. 1979R. Perry Bishop's Pawn i. 15, I was going to swallow a handful of travel sickness pills.
1810Scott Lady of L. iii. xxi, Panting and *travel-soiled he stood.
1847M. Howitt Ballads 194 Neither to the other told How they were *travel-spent.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop xliv, Her *travel-stained dress.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iii. 40 *Trauell-tainted as I am. 1753Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 52/1 Our hero travel-tainted, lay sunk in the arms of profound repose.
1949Dylan Thomas Let. 1 Dec. (1966) 341, I must..hurry everything up, as visas, *travel-tickets, etc., cannot be too easy to procure. 1980Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 17/3 Auckland..is not the place to buy travel tickets, as there is a 10 per cent tax on them there.
1887J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 218 Fast our *travel-time has sped. 1946Travel time [see flying time s.v. flying vbl. n. 3]. 1976P. R. White Planning for Public Transport viii. 160 Over routes of about 200 to 250 m..total travel times by air and rail are similar.
1822Byron Werner i. i. 475 A poor sick man, *Travel-tired.
1821Scott Kenilw. xxiv, Horses or light carriages to meet them, and bring them up without being *travel-toiled.
1961Mobile Home Jrnl. Dec. 21/1 Harold Martin..is now the proud owner of a twenty-seven foot Yellowstone *travel trailer... The twenty-seven foot model is the largest in the Yellowstone line of travel trailers. 1978Sunday Sun-Times (Chicago) 1 Jan. 122/1 Travel trailers are of two types: The conventional, rectangular-shaped unit constructed of aluminum or molded fiberglass over wall studs, and the fifth-wheel trailer.
1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin iii. 21 The *travel vouchers and tickets are ordered. 1978P. Bryers Cat Trapper xxviii. 180 His travel vouchers were made out for the motel at Kishinev.
1952‘R. West’ Meaning of Treason (ed. 2) i. vii. 156 A *travel warrant issued by the Ministry of Labour.
1919W. de la Mare Flora 40 Noonday to night the enigma of thine eyes Frets with desire their *travel-wearied brain. 1927W. B. Yeats October Blast 22 Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man.
1856E. FitzGerald Salamán (1909) 47 Kurd..*Travel-weary, Fain would go to sleep.
1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. v. 100 Both men and horses were..much *travel-worn.
1765Sterne Tr. Shandy VII. iv, A *travel-writer would say, ‘it would not be amiss to give some account of it’. 1949C. Graves Ireland Revisited viii. 125 Every travel-writer and poet who has visited the Lakes of Killarney has made some attempt to do justice to their loveliness. 1972W. Garner Ditto, Brother Rat! xi. 80 A guest! A famous travel writer.
▪ II. travel, v.|ˈtræv(ə)l|
Forms: see prec.
[orig. the same word as travail v.; cf. prec. Derivatives, as travelled, -er, -ing, etc. are usually spelt with ll in Gr. Britain, with single l in America.]
†1. To torment, distress; to suffer affliction; to labour, toil; to suffer the pains of parturition; etc.: see travail v. 1–4.
2. a. intr. To make a journey; to go from one place to another; to journey. Also fig.
αc1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 25/61 For ȝe þus i-trauailede beoth fram so ferre londe..Ich eov nelle greui nouȝt. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 3 He was of grete elde, & myght not trauaile. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. i. (1859) 1, I had longe tyme trauayled toward the holy Cyte of Ierusalem. 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Litany, To preserue all that trauayle by lande or by water. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 28 Long time they thus together traveiled. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. iii. 14 He supposes me trauaild to Poland. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 94 Why should we..quit the Road.., if we may safely travail in it? 1714Gay Sheph. Week Proeme, Other Poet travailing in this plain Highway of Pastoral.
βc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxi. (Eugenia) 326 Sen scho mycht nocht trawel hym til. c1410Sir Cleges 16 To men, that traveld in londe of ware. 1483Cath. Angl. 391/2 To Travelle, itinerare. a1550Freiris of Berwik 39 in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 286 For he wes awld, and micht nocht wele travell. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 68 He is no bodie that hath not traueld. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. i. iii. 111 What danger will it be to vs,..to trauell forth so farre? 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 147 A thirsty Train That long have travell'd thro' a Desart Plain. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) I. 15 (Desobligeant) An Englishman does not travel to see Englishmen. 1855Paley æschylus Pref. (1861) 28 They have..pointed out the path in which succeeding editors should travel. 1901W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Eliz. iv. 13 [They] travelled down from London in a special Pullman attached to the Bristol express.
b. to travel it: to make a journey; esp. to go on foot.
1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) II. 135 (Moulines) To travel it through the Bourbonnois. 1903Speaker 19 Dec. 293/1 Laird, I just travel't it.
c. spec. of a Methodist preacher: To go round a circuit. (Cf. quot. 1791 s.v. circuit 6.)
1789[see travelling ppl. a. b]. 1791Hampson Mem. J. Wesley III. 84 Every preacher was considered, when admitted to travel, as a member of conference. 1885Minutes Wesleyan Confer. 8 The above have travelled two years. 1913Daily News 17 July 4 On leaving Didsbury College he..afterwards ‘travelled’, as the Methodists say, in the Brentford and Twickenham circuits.
d. To journey from place to place as a commercial traveller (traveller 3). Const. in the commodity for which the traveller solicits orders, and for the concern for which a commercial traveller works.
1830Lamb Let. to Wordsworth 22 Jan., A rider in his youth, travelling for shops. 1841Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 330/2 I've got a place—a tip-top place..to travel in the West of England in oil and spermaceti. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. III. vi. lx. 336, I travelled for 'em, sir, in a gentlemanly way—at a high salary. 1898Westm. Gaz. 2 May 5/2 One lady ‘travels in balloons’, it was said, meaning not that she soared aloft, but that she vended toy-balloons to drapers and others. 1906B. von Hutten What bec. Pam 70 Mr. Bingle travelled in whisky. Ibid. 71 A gentleman who travelled in hygienic flannels. 1906Blackw. Mag. Apr. 541/1 The Sophist who in ancient times ‘travelled’ in sophistry as our bagmen ‘travel’ in soap. 1922Joyce Ulysses 111, I travelled for cork lino. 1964‘J. Melville’ Murderers' Houses ii. 46 He travels for Associated Boxes. It's the big firm on the London Road.
e. Of an animal: To walk or run; spec. of deer, to move on while browsing.
1877C. Hallock Sportsman's Gaz. 88 If the deer is ‘travelling’, as it is called, one has to walk much faster. 1907J. H. Patterson Man-Eaters of Tsavo xxii. 249 [The lion] was travelling leisurely, and I was delighted to find that I was gaining on him fast.
f. to travel light: to travel with little luggage. Also fig.
1921E. O'Neill Emperor Jones i. 166, I travels light when I wants to move fast. 1931‘Grey Owl’ Men of Last Frontier 13 As he has also to break his own trail, he travels light, taking only a sheet of canvas for a windbreak and one blanket. 1954I. Murdoch Under Net xviii. 252, I just couldn't help making money, and I don't want that. I want to travel light. 1977Time 19 Dec. 18/2 West German terrorists are especially difficult to fathom because ideologically they travel light.
3. a. transf. To move, go; to pass from one point or place to another; to proceed, advance; to wander; esp. in mod. scientific use, to pass, to be transmitted.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. 29 Sculpture..travell'd and came to Rome. 1781Cowper Expost. 582 Thy thunders travel over earth and seas. 1839G. Bird Nat. Philos. 129 Sound travels through different bodies with very different degrees of velocity. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxx. 400 Pains commencing in particular parts of the body, and travelling back towards the spine. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 117 The earthquake-wave, as it travels along, causes the ground to rise and fall. 1911E. Rutherford in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 794/1 In an electric field, the positive ions travel to the negative electrode and vice versa.
b. fig. of some action figured as movement. to travel out of the record: see record n. 4 c.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 326 Time trauels in diuers paces, with diuers persons. 1606― Tr. & Cr. iii. iii. 154 Honour trauels in a straight so narrow, Where one but goes a breast. 1664Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 181 His Royal Highness who hath travelled thorough all hearts. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxii, I must remind the learned gentleman that he is travelling out of the case before us. 1874G. J. Whyte-Melville Uncle J. viii, It seems that we are travelling out of the record.
c. Of a piece of mechanism: To move, or be capable of being moved, along a fixed course. (Cf. prec. n. 3.)
1815Scott Guy M. lvii, A large iron ring, which travelled upon the bar we have described. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Travel, [as] a thimble, block, &c., to run along on beams or ropes. 1892Photogr. Ann. II, The top travels, so as to bring the case over another groove at the back.
d. colloq. To bear transportation.
1852Beck's Florist Dec. 271 They do not..make good plants for exhibition, as they travel badly. 1887J. B. Sheppard Lit. Cantuarienses (Rolls) I. Introd. 81 The monks knowing that so small a wine would not travel,..always sold it on the spot.
e. To move on, esp. with speed. colloq. or slang.
1884Reports Provinc. (E.D.D.), ‘How he travels’, said of a dog, running very fast. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 473/1 The yachts were kept traveling from start to finish. 1911G. S. Porter Harvester v. 74 Betsey..wants to meander along the road with a loaded wagon... Betsey, you must travel! a1914Mod. That car is travelling, and no mistake! Mod. U.S. Keep traveling (= clear out, go on or away). 1970M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes xxi. 178 Mercy, the lorry's travelling. Foot down.
4. a. trans. (or with advb. accus.). To journey through (a country, district, space, etc.); to pass over, traverse (a road, etc.); to follow (a course or path).
† to travel the road, to practise highway robbery; cf. road n. 5 b.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1952 Þarfore, y am come to þys cyte, And haue trauayled many a iurne. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 8 Foure thynges be necessary to be..obserued of all them that entendeth to trauayle the same [journey]. 1578Lyte Dodoens vi. iii. 659 Peter Belon..hath much haunted and trauayled the Ilande of Crete. 1644Evelyn Diary 4 Nov., From hence we travell a plain and pleasant champain to Viterbo. 1682Hickeringill Black Non-Conf. xvi, The Apostles that had the gift of Tongues travelled all Nations. 1706–7Farquhar Beaux Strat. iv. ii, There's a great deal of address and good manners in robbing a lady; I am the most a gentle⁓man..that ever travelled the road. 1823F. Clissold Ascent Mt. Blanc 21 Our path..now became far less dangerous than that we had just travelled. 1885Act 48 & 49 Vict. c. 57 §1 The senior judge..who actually travels that circuit. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 366/2 The path was well traveled.
b. fig. or in fig. context.
1612T. James Corrupt. Scripture To Rdr., Hauing now..fully trauelled this vast wilderness of Sin. 1779Mirror No. 16 ⁋7 His brethren, travelling the same road, and subject to the like calamities with himself. 1784Cowper Task iii. 156 Some..travel nature up To the sharp peak of her sublimest height. 1822Scott Pirate xviii, I have travelled books as well as seas in my day.
c. To traverse, cover (a specified distance).
1660Blount Boscobel iii. (1680) 31 He passed through more dangers than he travailed miles. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 12 Having travelled five and forty dayes travail from Macharib. 1804W. Tennant Indian Recreat. II. 70 Their number is..greater than that of the miles you travel.
5. a. To cause to journey, to drive or lead from one place to another. Also fig.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 479 Their horses are but smal, but very swift and hard, they trauell them vnshod both winter and Sommer. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 242 In ancient time, if horses were to be travelled through snow, they made them boots of sackcloth to wear in their journey. 1784R. Bage Barham Downs I. 170 His masters..having travelled him through forty pages of Cornelius Nepos, advanced him to the dignity of Cæsar's commentaries. 1864Pall Mall G. 4 Sept. 10/2 Graziers..stated that they prefer travelling their animals on foot distances of fifty, sixty, and seventy miles rather than exposing them to the cruelties exercised on them by the railway companies. 1891Melbourne Argus 9 May 10/6 It would be advisable..not..to travel any stock at present.
b. Theatr. To take (costumes, equipment, etc.) with one from place to place.
1930E. Wallace Lady of Ascot i. 15 She had sapphire rings and clips..of an incredible value, and she ‘travelled’ them, as they say in theatrical circles. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 123 The taller of these two guests travelled a broken concertina with him.
c. Publishing. To take (books) from place to place in order to promote and sell them. Cf. sense 2 d.
1937V. Woolf Let. 10 Feb. (1980) VI. 106 We're taking Tuesday off at Rodmell to travel our books in Sussex. 1977B. Colloms Victorian Country Parsons xi. 219 [George Routledge] liked to travel his own books in the north country so that he could keep in touch with book⁓sellers.
Add: [c indigo][3.] f.[/c] Basketball. To make two or more steps' progress in any direction while carrying (esp. instead of dribbling) the ball, in violation of the rules.
1932W. L. Lambert Pract. Basketball 68 If..the player develops the habit of gathering in the ball first, he will travel while executing pivots. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 1 May 17/3 Once when I felt certain a kid was going to travel (move his feet without bouncing the ball)..I blew the whistle..even before it registered in my brain that he had not done anything wrong. 1989Chicago Tribune 14 May iii. 13/2 After watching Atlanta's Moses Malone travel and commit offensive fouls: ‘Make a call. I had him for seven years. I know what he does.’ |