traveller

noun11

1. •
   One who travels, especially to distant lands.

   • The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them. — 1892
2. •
   (old-fashioned) A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
3. •
   (UK) Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
4. •
   (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Traveller.

   • Kevin chases after him through a forest and finds the horse with Joseph Maguire (Ian Holm), a poetry-reciting traveler (Irish gypsy). — 2012
5. •
   A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
6. •
   A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.

   • At the conclusion of play, the scores from all the travelers get entered into a computer. — 2008
7. •
   A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
8. •
   Part of the apparatus in various fiber spinning processes (for spinning fiber to thread or yarn); several types exist.
9. •
   A rail or track for a sliding curtain.

   • That would detract from the austerity of Rudkin's study, and a curtain on a traveler is always slid across the stage […] — 1977
10. •
    (US) A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place.
11. •
    One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.

noun2

1. •
   A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway, formerly consisting of two clans: those of Romani descent ("the Greater Travellers", who spoke Romani Traveller Norwegian) and those of Norwegian descent (who spoke a cant called Rodi).
2. •
   (UK, Ireland) Ellipsis of Irish Traveller, a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland.

   • The auctioneer said he had no animus against Travellers but that some headstones verged on “monstrous”. — 2024