| 单词 | traveler |
| 释义 | traveler /trav"euh leuhr, trav"leuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that travels. 2. a person who travels or has traveled in distant places or foreign lands. 3. See traveling salesman. 4. part of a mechanism constructed to move in a fixed course. 5. Textiles. (in ring spinning) a small metal device that moves rapidly around the ring and guides the yarn onto the revolving bobbin. 6. Naut. a. a metal ring or thimble fitted to move freely on a rope, spar, or rod. b. Also called horse. the rope, spar, or rod itself. 7. Also, traveler curtain. Theat. a transverse curtain opened by being drawn from both sides of the proscenium. 8. (often cap.) Chiefly Brit. a member of any of a number of traditionally itinerant peoples of the British Isles and other English-speaking areas, including, in addition to people of Gypsy origin, autochthonous groups such as the speakers of Shelta. Also, esp. Brit., traveller. [1325-75; ME travaillour. See TRAVEL, -ER1] |
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