Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRAV'EL
TRAV'EL, n.
- A passing on foot; a walking.
- Journey; a passing or riding from place to place. His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden.
- Travel or travels, a journeying to a distant country or countries. The gentleman has just returned from his travels.
- The distance which a man rides in the performance of his official duties; or the fee paid for passing that distance; as, the travel of the sherif is twenty miles; or that of a representative is seventy miles. His travel is a dollar for every twenty miles. United States.
- Travels, in the plural, an account of occurrences and observations made during a journey; as, a book of travels; the title of a book that relates occurrences in traveling; as, travels in Italy.
- Labor; toil; parturition. [See Travail.]
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