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Travel \Trav"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveledor Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling.]

[Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.]

1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.]

--Hooker.

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. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Travel \Trav"el\, v. t.

1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. ``I travel this profound.'' --Milton.

2. To force to journey. [R.]

They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. --Spenser.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Travel \Trav"el\, n.

1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

With long travel I am stiff and weary. --Shak.

His travels ended at his country seat. --Dryden.

2. pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.

3. (Mach.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

4. Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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