traveller

Meanings

1. One who travels, especially to distant lands.
2. A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
3. Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
4. Alternative letter-case form of Traveller.
5. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
6. One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
7. A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
8. A rail or track for a sliding curtain.
9. A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.
10. A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place.
11. Part of the apparatus in various fiber spinning processes (for spinning fiber to thread or yarn); several types exist.

1. Ellipsis of Irish Traveller, a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland.
2. A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway.

Etymology

From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.