▪ I. travel, n.
(ˈtræv(ə)l)
Forms: α. 4 travall, Sc. trawaile, -ale, 4–5 Sc. trawaill, trauaille, 4–7 -aile, 5 Sc. trawal, 5–7 trau-, travayle, 5–8 travail, 6 trauaylle, -eile, travaill, Sc. travale, 6–7 -aile. β. 5 Sc. trawel(l, 5–7 trauel(l, travell, (6 trauyll), 5– travel, (9 Sc. traivel).
[orig. the same word as travail n.1, in a specialized sense and form; the latter due to shifting of stress.]
† 1. Labour, toil; suffering, trouble; labour of child-birth, etc.: see travail n.1 1–6.
2. a. The action of travelling or journeying.
| α c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxv. (Julian) 9 Þe trawalouris..for trawale ware wery. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) viii. 28 Þe way es comoun and wele ynogh knawen with all men þat vsez trauaile. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xiv. 94 That I may haue som beyldyng by, In my trauayll. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lxxxv. 36 Way stricht, cler dicht, to wilsome wicht, That irke bene in travale. 1561 T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. (1577) E j b, After a yeares trauayle abrode. 1660 Blount Boscobel i. (1680) 49 His feet..much galled with travail. |
| β 1375 Barbour Bruce (MS. 1487) iv. 664 My twa sonnys with ȝow sall I Send to tak with ȝow ȝour trawell [rime fale]. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon xxii. 65 Huon was wery of trauyll. a 1550 Freiris of Berwik 65 in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 287, I pray grit God him speid Him haill and sound in-to his travell. 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus i. 33 The way is short, & the trauell easye. 1650 in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 464 The wayes are everywhere unsafe for travell. 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) I. 72 (The Rose) The advantage of travel..was by seeing a great deal both of men and manners. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 2/3 Continental travel is looking up. By travel we mean quick and comfortable travel. |
b. With
a and
pl. An act of travelling; a journey. Now only in
pl., except
dial.| 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse Pref. A v b, His eloquence, prudence,..and other like vertues..insued of hys peregrinations, and travails. 1610 Day Festivals iii. (1615) 56 He made (as it were) foure Travailes. a 1700 Dryden Theodore & Hon. 57 His travels ended at his country seat. 1753 C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 84, I was unwilling he should undertake such a travel. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 182 In mortal wisdom, thou'st already ran A circled travel of eternity. 1836 H. Coleridge North. Worthies (1852) I. 6 Soon after we find him on his travels in Italy. 1883 Cleland Inchbracken iv. 28 Ye've had a sore traivel. a 1905 in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., (Westmoreland) Es ya wad see in a day's travel. |
c. pl. (
ellipt.) ‘Account of occurrences and observations of a journey into foreign parts’ (J.).
| [1591 (title) The Rare Trauailes of Iob Hortop.] 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Travels, Journeys, Voyages; or a Book giving a particular Account of such Voyages. 1710 Tatler No. 254 ¶1 There are no Books which I more delight in than in Travels. 1817 Malthus Popul. (ed. 5) II. iii. viii. 387 Some very intelligent Travels..written in 1810. 1841 Elphinstone Hist. India I. 255 We possess the travels of a native of that country in India in the fourth century. Mod. He took Gulliver's Travels with him on his journey. |
d. transf. Passage of anything in its course or path, or over a distance; movement.
| 1742 Young Nt. Th. iv. 713 [A comet] revisits earth, From the long travel of a thousand years. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 701/2 The more the variety of characters is multiplied, the more ‘travel’ of the compositor's hand over the cases is necessary for picking them up. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 843 Cardiomotive force is equal to the output of the heart plus the resistance to the travel of the blood in the vascular system. |
e. Passage over; traffic.
rare.
| 1830 Hood Haunted H. i. xviii, Each walk as green as is the mantled pool For want of human travel. |
3. A single movement of some part of mechanism, as a piston, slide-valve, etc.; also, the distance through which it moves; length of stroke.
| 1841 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 251/2 To find..the travel of the valve corresponding to the travel..of the piston substitute. 1883 Times 8 Feb., A thin copper rod moved slowly backwards and forwards over them, with a travel of about 2 in. 1892 Greener Breech-Loader 32 When the gun is fired the ‘travel’ of the mainspring is utilised as an automatically acting trigger. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 2 May 9/3 The incoming of ‘three colour [printing] at one travel of paper’. |
4. Capacity or force of movement.
| 1816 Scott Antiq. xxx, The breaker was never able to bring her under command. She has more travel than any bitch I ever knew. 1844 Stephens Bk. Farm II. 625 A dog of high travel..will drive [sheep] hither and thither. 1892 Daily News 31 Dec. 3/4 A crew of men in the boat kept her rocking rapidly from side to side to give her more force and travel. |
5. attrib. and
Comb., as
travel article,
travel bag,
travel-book,
travel film,
travel literature,
travel-monger,
travel permit,
travel poster,
travel ticket,
travel time,
travel voucher,
travel warrant; objective, as
travel editor,
travel-reader,
travel-writer;
travel-loving,
travel-minded adjs.; instrumental, as
travel-broken,
travel-disordered,
travel-soiled,
travel-spent,
travel-stained,
travel-tainted,
travel-tattered,
travel-tired,
travel-toiled,
travel-wearied,
travel-weary,
travel-worn adjs.;
travel agency, a firm which makes arrangements for the transport, accommodation, etc., of travellers, and which acts as an agent for tour-operators (see
tour n. 12);
travel agent, one who owns or works for a travel agency;
travel allowance, (
a) the amount of money given to a traveller to cover the expenses of a journey; (
b) under the Exchange Control Bill, the maximum amount of money travellers were allowed to take out of the
U.K. during the period 1946–80;
travel brochure, a booklet advertising travel and describing the features and amenities of holiday resorts or other places of travel;
travel bug colloq., a strong urge to travel (
cf. bug n.2 3 a);
travel bureau = travel agency above;
travel document, a document required for travel;
spec. a document allowing foreign travel, held by one not entitled to a passport;
travel folder = travel brochure above;
travel sickness, nausea induced by the motion of a vehicle; carsickness; hence
travel-sick a. affected by travel sickness;
travel trailer U.S., a variety of caravan.
| 1927 World Travel Oct. 39/2 (Advt.), Imperial Airways. Daily Services Between London Cologne Brussels Paris... Book through any *Travel Agency or direct with the Company. 1975 B. Bainbridge Sweet William iii. 79 He was going to get brochures from a travel agency. He thought they should all go to Spain. |
| [1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 227/2 Cook, Thomas (1808–1892), travelling agent, was born at Melbourne in Derbyshire.] 1925 Times 1 May 2/2 (Advt.), Write to-day for your copy of ‘Economy Tours to America’, to..leading *Travel agents. 1980 S. Brett Dead Side of Mike vi. 61 Toby Root played a travel agent. |
| 1937 *Travel allowance [see second a. 6 b]. 1951 Ann. Reg. 1950 iv. 453 The basic annual travel allowances were increased in December to {pstlg}100 for adults. 1978 A. Waugh Best Wine Last xviii. 237 In 1947..the meagre travel allowance was again reduced. |
| 1895 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 7/1 A literary man who writes *travel articles in the Anglo-American magazines. |
| 1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 875/2 Popular *travel bag, with..passport pocket. 1968 L. Deighton Only when I Larf i. 9 Umbrella in one hand, travel bag in the other, he marched off. |
| 1843 Dickens Let. 2 Nov. (1974) III. 591 The *travel-book, if to be done at all, would cost me very little trouble. 1878 Browning La Saisiaz 60 That rare nook..touched on by no travel-book. |
| 1953 P. Scott Alien Sky i. vi. 75 A plan I have to issue highly coloured *travel brochures with a photo of myself on an elephant. 1972 F. Warner Maquettes 42 A copy⁓writer for the travel brochures. |
| 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. II. xx. 205 The condition of my own *travel-broken animals. |
| 1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds i. 13 The *travel bug. Ants in your suitcase. |
| 1930 E. Waugh Labels iii. 51 Their speech is rich with the words of the *travel bureau's advertising manager. 1966 A. K. Train Spoken like Frenchman 94 (heading) At a travel bureau. |
| 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop xlvi, Dusty shoes, and *travel-disordered dress. |
| 1963 Listener 14 Feb. 281/2 Soblen, provided with an Israeli *travel document valid for travel to any country except Israel, left by air. 1980 E. Behr Getting Even xiv. 166 He was not to volunteer information about the man's travel documents. |
| 1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1054/2 ‘Clonsilla’ En Pension... Recommended by *Travel Editor of ‘Queen’. 1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. iv. 19/5 Travel Editor Holt was born and reared in West Virginia. |
| 1922 *Travel film [see scenic n. 2]. 1978 A. Waugh Best Wine Last ix. 107 Marrakesh has been a subject of many articles and travel films. |
| 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. v. 488 A tour from a *travel folder. 1980 D. Bloodworth Trapdoor xii. 68 The secluded Kahala Hilton with its sun-swept beach..could have been torn straight out of a travel folder. |
| 1934 *Travel literature [see courtesy card s.v. courtesy n. 12]. 1955 E. Blunden Addresses on General Subjects 285 It is an example of the prolific travel-literature of England. |
| 1932 *Travel-minded [see minded ppl. a. 4 c]. 1962 John o' London's 1 Mar. 202/1 Everyone these days is travel-minded. |
| 1768 Baretti Mann. & Cust. Italy II. 324 Credit your *travel-mongers about the character of the Italians. |
| 1942 M. Cable Gobi Desert 245 It was no longer he who issued the *travel permits and received official visits. 1978 T. Willis Buckingham Palace Connection v. 96 The British Vice-Consul..had promised to get her the necessary travel permit. |
| 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 22/5 This is no excuse for a *travel-poster jacket and flamboyant title. 1979 R. Jeffries Murder begets Murder xv. 91 Sun from dawn to dusk just like the travel posters had promised. |
| 1959 Times 13 July 9/1 Some of the children will be *travel-sick. 1978 Times 30 Dec. 4/4, I felt travel sick as we were driving along the lane. |
| 1900 Dorland Med. Dict. 710/2 *Travel-sickness... Same as Car-sickness. 1941 W. Graham Night Journey xx. 246, I was talking to your husband on the problem of travel sickness. 1979 R. Perry Bishop's Pawn i. 15, I was going to swallow a handful of travel sickness pills. |
| 1810 Scott Lady of L. iii. xxi, Panting and *travel-soiled he stood. |
| 1847 M. Howitt Ballads 194 Neither to the other told How they were *travel-spent. |
| 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop xliv, Her *travel-stained dress. |
| 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iii. 40 *Trauell-tainted as I am. 1753 Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 52/1 Our hero travel-tainted, lay sunk in the arms of profound repose. |
| 1949 Dylan Thomas Let. 1 Dec. (1966) 341, I must..hurry everything up, as visas, *travel-tickets, etc., cannot be too easy to procure. 1980 Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 17/3 Auckland..is not the place to buy travel tickets, as there is a 10 per cent tax on them there. |
| 1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 218 Fast our *travel-time has sped. 1946 Travel time [see flying time s.v. flying vbl. n. 3]. 1976 P. R. White Planning for Public Transport viii. 160 Over routes of about 200 to 250 m..total travel times by air and rail are similar. |
| 1822 Byron Werner i. i. 475 A poor sick man, *Travel-tired. |
| 1821 Scott Kenilw. xxiv, Horses or light carriages to meet them, and bring them up without being *travel-toiled. |
| 1961 Mobile Home Jrnl. Dec. 21/1 Harold Martin..is now the proud owner of a twenty-seven foot Yellowstone *travel trailer... The twenty-seven foot model is the largest in the Yellowstone line of travel trailers. 1978 Sunday Sun-Times (Chicago) 1 Jan. 122/1 Travel trailers are of two types: The conventional, rectangular-shaped unit constructed of aluminum or molded fiberglass over wall studs, and the fifth-wheel trailer. |
| 1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin iii. 21 The *travel vouchers and tickets are ordered. 1978 P. Bryers Cat Trapper xxviii. 180 His travel vouchers were made out for the motel at Kishinev. |
| 1952 ‘R. West’ Meaning of Treason (ed. 2) i. vii. 156 A *travel warrant issued by the Ministry of Labour. |
| 1919 W. de la Mare Flora 40 Noonday to night the enigma of thine eyes Frets with desire their *travel-wearied brain. 1927 W. B. Yeats October Blast 22 Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man. |
| 1856 E. FitzGerald Salamán (1909) 47 Kurd..*Travel-weary, Fain would go to sleep. |
| 1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. v. 100 Both men and horses were..much *travel-worn. |
| 1765 Sterne Tr. Shandy VII. iv, A *travel-writer would say, ‘it would not be amiss to give some account of it’. 1949 C. Graves Ireland Revisited viii. 125 Every travel-writer and poet who has visited the Lakes of Killarney has made some attempt to do justice to their loveliness. 1972 W. Garner Ditto, Brother Rat! xi. 80 A guest! A famous travel writer. |
▪ II. travel, v. (
ˈtræv(ə)l)
Forms: see
prec. [orig. the same word as travail v.; cf. prec. Derivatives, as travelled, -er, -ing, etc. are usually spelt with ll in Gr. Britain, with single l in America.] † 1. To torment, distress; to suffer affliction; to labour, toil; to suffer the pains of parturition; etc.: see
travail v. 1–4.
2. a. intr. To make a journey; to go from one place to another; to journey. Also
fig.| α c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 25/61 For ȝe þus i-trauailede beoth fram so ferre londe..Ich eov nelle greui nouȝt. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 3 He was of grete elde, & myght not trauaile. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. i. (1859) 1, I had longe tyme trauayled toward the holy Cyte of Ierusalem. 1548–9 (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Litany, To preserue all that trauayle by lande or by water. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 28 Long time they thus together traveiled. 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. i. iii. 14 He supposes me trauaild to Poland. 1691 Norris Pract. Disc. 94 Why should we..quit the Road.., if we may safely travail in it? 1714 Gay Sheph. Week Proeme, Other Poet travailing in this plain Highway of Pastoral. |
| β c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxi. (Eugenia) 326 Sen scho mycht nocht trawel hym til. c 1410 Sir Cleges 16 To men, that traveld in londe of ware. 1483 Cath. Angl. 391/2 To Travelle, itinerare. a 1550 Freiris of Berwik 39 in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 286 For he wes awld, and micht nocht wele travell. 1594 Nashe Unfort. Trav. 68 He is no bodie that hath not traueld. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. i. iii. 111 What danger will it be to vs,..to trauell forth so farre? 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 147 A thirsty Train That long have travell'd thro' a Desart Plain. 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) I. 15 (Desobligeant) An Englishman does not travel to see Englishmen. 1855 Paley æschylus Pref. (1861) 28 They have..pointed out the path in which succeeding editors should travel. 1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Eliz. iv. 13 [They] travelled down from London in a special Pullman attached to the Bristol express. |
b. to travel it: to make a journey;
esp. to go on foot.
| 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) II. 135 (Moulines) To travel it through the Bourbonnois. 1903 Speaker 19 Dec. 293/1 Laird, I just travel't it. |
c. spec. of a Methodist preacher: To go round a circuit. (
Cf. quot. 1791
s.v. circuit 6.)
| 1789 [see travelling ppl. a. b]. 1791 Hampson Mem. J. Wesley III. 84 Every preacher was considered, when admitted to travel, as a member of conference. 1885 Minutes Wesleyan Confer. 8 The above have travelled two years. 1913 Daily News 17 July 4 On leaving Didsbury College he..afterwards ‘travelled’, as the Methodists say, in the Brentford and Twickenham circuits. |
d. To journey from place to place as a commercial traveller (
traveller 3). Const.
in the commodity for which the traveller solicits orders, and
for the concern for which a commercial traveller works.
| 1830 Lamb Let. to Wordsworth 22 Jan., A rider in his youth, travelling for shops. 1841 Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 330/2 I've got a place—a tip-top place..to travel in the West of England in oil and spermaceti. 1872 Geo. Eliot Middlem. III. vi. lx. 336, I travelled for 'em, sir, in a gentlemanly way—at a high salary. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 2 May 5/2 One lady ‘travels in balloons’, it was said, meaning not that she soared aloft, but that she vended toy-balloons to drapers and others. 1906 B. von Hutten What bec. Pam 70 Mr. Bingle travelled in whisky. Ibid. 71 A gentleman who travelled in hygienic flannels. 1906 Blackw. Mag. Apr. 541/1 The Sophist who in ancient times ‘travelled’ in sophistry as our bagmen ‘travel’ in soap. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 111, I travelled for cork lino. 1964 ‘J. Melville’ Murderers' Houses ii. 46 He travels for Associated Boxes. It's the big firm on the London Road. |
e. Of an animal: To walk or run;
spec. of deer, to move on while browsing.
| 1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gaz. 88 If the deer is ‘travelling’, as it is called, one has to walk much faster. 1907 J. H. Patterson Man-Eaters of Tsavo xxii. 249 [The lion] was travelling leisurely, and I was delighted to find that I was gaining on him fast. |
f. to travel light: to travel with little luggage. Also
fig.| 1921 E. O'Neill Emperor Jones i. 166, I travels light when I wants to move fast. 1931 ‘Grey Owl’ Men of Last Frontier 13 As he has also to break his own trail, he travels light, taking only a sheet of canvas for a windbreak and one blanket. 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xviii. 252, I just couldn't help making money, and I don't want that. I want to travel light. 1977 Time 19 Dec. 18/2 West German terrorists are especially difficult to fathom because ideologically they travel light. |
3. a. transf. To move, go; to pass from one point or place to another; to proceed, advance; to wander;
esp. in
mod. scientific use, to pass, to be transmitted.
| 1662 Evelyn Chalcogr. 29 Sculpture..travell'd and came to Rome. 1781 Cowper Expost. 582 Thy thunders travel over earth and seas. 1839 G. Bird Nat. Philos. 129 Sound travels through different bodies with very different degrees of velocity. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxx. 400 Pains commencing in particular parts of the body, and travelling back towards the spine. 1878 Huxley Physiogr. 117 The earthquake-wave, as it travels along, causes the ground to rise and fall. 1911 E. Rutherford in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 794/1 In an electric field, the positive ions travel to the negative electrode and vice versa. |
b. fig. of some action figured as movement.
to travel out of the record: see
record n. 4 c.
| 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 326 Time trauels in diuers paces, with diuers persons. 1606 ― Tr. & Cr. iii. iii. 154 Honour trauels in a straight so narrow, Where one but goes a breast. 1664 Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 181 His Royal Highness who hath travelled thorough all hearts. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xxii, I must remind the learned gentleman that he is travelling out of the case before us. 1874 G. J. Whyte-Melville Uncle J. viii, It seems that we are travelling out of the record. |
c. Of a piece of mechanism: To move, or be capable of being moved, along a fixed course. (
Cf. prec. n. 3.)
| 1815 Scott Guy M. lvii, A large iron ring, which travelled upon the bar we have described. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Travel, [as] a thimble, block, &c., to run along on beams or ropes. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II, The top travels, so as to bring the case over another groove at the back. |
d. colloq. To bear transportation.
| 1852 Beck's Florist Dec. 271 They do not..make good plants for exhibition, as they travel badly. 1887 J. B. Sheppard Lit. Cantuarienses (Rolls) I. Introd. 81 The monks knowing that so small a wine would not travel,..always sold it on the spot. |
e. To move on,
esp. with speed.
colloq. or
slang.| 1884 Reports Provinc. (E.D.D.), ‘How he travels’, said of a dog, running very fast. 1894 Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 473/1 The yachts were kept traveling from start to finish. 1911 G. S. Porter Harvester v. 74 Betsey..wants to meander along the road with a loaded wagon... Betsey, you must travel! a 1914 Mod. That car is travelling, and no mistake! Mod. U.S. Keep traveling (= clear out, go on or away). 1970 M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes xxi. 178 Mercy, the lorry's travelling. Foot down. |
4. a. trans. (or with
advb. accus.). To journey through (a country, district, space, etc.); to pass over, traverse (a road, etc.); to follow (a course or path).
† to travel the road, to practise highway robbery;
cf. road n. 5 b.
| 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1952 Þarfore, y am come to þys cyte, And haue trauayled many a iurne. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 8 Foure thynges be necessary to be..obserued of all them that entendeth to trauayle the same [journey]. 1578 Lyte Dodoens vi. iii. 659 Peter Belon..hath much haunted and trauayled the Ilande of Crete. 1644 Evelyn Diary 4 Nov., From hence we travell a plain and pleasant champain to Viterbo. 1682 Hickeringill Black Non-Conf. xvi, The Apostles that had the gift of Tongues travelled all Nations. 1706–7 Farquhar Beaux Strat. iv. ii, There's a great deal of address and good manners in robbing a lady; I am the most a gentle⁓man..that ever travelled the road. 1823 F. Clissold Ascent Mt. Blanc 21 Our path..now became far less dangerous than that we had just travelled. 1885 Act 48 & 49 Vict. c. 57 §1 The senior judge..who actually travels that circuit. 1894 Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 366/2 The path was well traveled. |
b. fig. or in
fig. context.
| 1612 T. James Corrupt. Scripture To Rdr., Hauing now..fully trauelled this vast wilderness of Sin. 1779 Mirror No. 16 ¶7 His brethren, travelling the same road, and subject to the like calamities with himself. 1784 Cowper Task iii. 156 Some..travel nature up To the sharp peak of her sublimest height. 1822 Scott Pirate xviii, I have travelled books as well as seas in my day. |
c. To traverse, cover (a specified distance).
| 1660 Blount Boscobel iii. (1680) 31 He passed through more dangers than he travailed miles. 1660 F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 12 Having travelled five and forty dayes travail from Macharib. 1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. II. 70 Their number is..greater than that of the miles you travel. |
5. a. To cause to journey, to drive or lead from one place to another. Also
fig.| 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 479 Their horses are but smal, but very swift and hard, they trauell them vnshod both winter and Sommer. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 242 In ancient time, if horses were to be travelled through snow, they made them boots of sackcloth to wear in their journey. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 170 His masters..having travelled him through forty pages of Cornelius Nepos, advanced him to the dignity of Cæsar's commentaries. 1864 Pall Mall G. 4 Sept. 10/2 Graziers..stated that they prefer travelling their animals on foot distances of fifty, sixty, and seventy miles rather than exposing them to the cruelties exercised on them by the railway companies. 1891 Melbourne Argus 9 May 10/6 It would be advisable..not..to travel any stock at present. |
b. Theatr. To take (costumes, equipment, etc.) with one from place to place.
| 1930 E. Wallace Lady of Ascot i. 15 She had sapphire rings and clips..of an incredible value, and she ‘travelled’ them, as they say in theatrical circles. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 123 The taller of these two guests travelled a broken concertina with him. |
c. Publishing. To take (books) from place to place in order to promote and sell them.
Cf. sense 2 d.
| 1937 V. Woolf Let. 10 Feb. (1980) VI. 106 We're taking Tuesday off at Rodmell to travel our books in Sussex. 1977 B. Colloms Victorian Country Parsons xi. 219 [George Routledge] liked to travel his own books in the north country so that he could keep in touch with book⁓sellers. |
Add:
[3.] f. Basketball. To make two or more steps' progress in any direction while carrying (
esp. instead of dribbling) the ball, in violation of the rules.
| 1932 W. L. Lambert Pract. Basketball 68 If..the player develops the habit of gathering in the ball first, he will travel while executing pivots. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 1 May 17/3 Once when I felt certain a kid was going to travel (move his feet without bouncing the ball)..I blew the whistle..even before it registered in my brain that he had not done anything wrong. 1989 Chicago Tribune 14 May iii. 13/2 After watching Atlanta's Moses Malone travel and commit offensive fouls: ‘Make a call. I had him for seven years. I know what he does.’ |