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

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 traveler's joy
      n : vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and
          Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers
          in summer and autumn [syn: traveller's joy, {old man's
          beard, Clematis vitalba]