1804 H. H. Brackenridge II. i. i. 8 I have known even in our own country..a good deal of it possessed, by way travellers, or boat men on our rivers; a kind of unshackled dialect.
1872 W. D. Howells iv. 89 Loquacious, acquaintance-making way-travellers.
2007 W. L. Hoffman ii. 46 He could be a way-traveler from beyond the Hinterlands.