Defn: A traveling crane. See under Crane.
4. (Spinning)
Defn: The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
5. (Naut.)
Defn: 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.
TRAVEL-TAINTED
Trav"el-taint`ed, a.
Defn: Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Obs.] Shak.
TRAVERS Trav"ers, adv. Etym: [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a.]
Defn: Across; athwart. [Obs.] The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. Ld. Berners.
TRAVERSABLE
Trav"ers*a*ble, a.