Trav"el (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveled (?) or 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.
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Trav"el (?), v. t.
"I travel this profound." Milton. 2 way limo. To force to journey.
[R.]
They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. Spenser.
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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.
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