wayfarer
(ˈweɪfɛərə(r))
[f. way n.1 + farer. Cf. wayferer.]
A traveller by road, esp. one who journeys on foot.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 520/1 Weyfarere, viator, viatrix. 1514 Barclay Eglog iii. (1570) B vj b, Iugglers and pipers, and scuruy wayfarers. 1551 T. Wilson Logic 43 The way⁓fairer shall not (or very hardly) come to his journeies ende, except he haue some money in his purse. 1602 Carew Cornwall i. 66 But in stead of remedy, they receyued in answere, that neither such an outcorner was frequented with many wayfarers, nor by hanging out signes..did they inuite any. 1836 Dickens Sk. Boz, Streets—Night, Savoury steams of hot dinners salute the nostrils of the hungry wayfarer, as he plods wearily by the area railings. 1858 C. Rossetti Poems, Up-hill 9 Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone before. 1896 Conan Doyle Exploits of Gerard vi. 217 There were few wayfarers between there and Greiz. |
b. wayfarer's-tree, the hobble-bush. U.S.
| 1858 [see hobble-bush]. |