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/trˈævəlɪŋ/ /trˈævlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Travel v. t.

1.

To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound."

2.

To force to journey. (R.) "They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises."

Travel v. i. (past & past part. traveled or travelled; pres. part. traveling or travelling)

1.

To labor; to travail. (Obsoles.)

2.

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

3.

To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

4.

To pass; to go; to move. "Time travels in divers paces with divers persons."

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"Travelling" Quotes from Famous Books

... Gray died he left his farm to a friend who cared nothing at all about it, and never took the trouble to go to it or to sell it or to send any one else to it. So once, nearly five years after Mr. Gray's death, some half dozen travelling hens and roosters found it, and after coming to the conclusion that it was as much theirs as any one's, they took possession of it and have kept it ...

— The Chickens of Fowl Farm • Lena E. Barksdale

... pun within my knowledge," remarked Stevenson. "A lady, travelling by coach, had a pet dog, which annoyed her fellow-passengers till one of them remonstrated. 'I'm surprised that you don't like my dog,' says the lady; 'he's a real Peruvian.' 'We don't object to your Peruvian ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... you don't think I'd have risked their cooling? I have sent 'em; and what do he do but send 'em travelling back, and here they be; and what objections his is I might study till I was blind, and I ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... newspaper. PROFESSOR RUBEK is an elderly man of distinguished appearance, wearing a black velvet jacket, and otherwise in light summer attire. MAIA is quite young, with a vivacious expression and lively, mocking eyes, yet with a suggestion of fatigue. She wears an elegant travelling dress. ...

— When We Dead Awaken • Henrik Ibsen

... the land in the way is subjected to any new servitude, like an elevated railroad or telegraph or telephone lines, they are entitled to damages. They can load and unload vehicles in connection with their business on their premises, but it must be done in such a manner as not to incommode the travelling public. They must not fill up the roadside with logs, wood, or rubbish of ...

— The Road and the Roadside • Burton Willis Potter

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