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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Traveler \Trav"el*er\, n. [Written also traveler.] 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. [1913 Webster] 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane. [1913 Webster] 4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner. [1913 Webster] 5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. [1913 Webster] Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala. [1913 Webster]