traveler's joy

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traveler's joy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Traveler \Trav"el*er\, n. [Written also traveler.]
     1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.
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     2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of
        receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
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     3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
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     4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring
        surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
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     5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like,
        and sliding thereon.
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     Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing
        plant with white flowers.
  
     Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.
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traveler's joy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  traveler's joy
      n 1: vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and
           Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in
           summer and autumn [syn: traveler's joy, traveller's joy
           , old man's beard, Clematis vitalba]