Word Meanings - CAIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.

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• TINKER
  A small mortar on the end of a staff. A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. The silversides. A skate. (more info) his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. 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;
• TINKERSHIRE; TINKLE
  The common guillemot.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• BEGGAR
  1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument
• TRAMP
  Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, 1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp
• BEGGAR'S TICKS
  The bur marigold and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
• BEGGAR'S LICE
  The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
• STURDY
  inconsiderable, OF. estourdi stunned, giddy, thoughtless, rash, F. étourdi, p.p. of OF. estourdir to stun, to render giddy, to amaze, F. étourdir; of uncertain origin. The sense has probably been influenced 1. Foolishly obstinate or resolute;
• TINKERLY
  After the manner of a tinker.
• TRAMPER
  One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.
• TRAVEL-TAINTED
  Harassed; fatigued with travel. Shak.
• BEGGARLINESS
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• TRAMPLER
  One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.
• TRAMPLE
  Etym: 1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6. 2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and
• TRAMPOOSE
  To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. Bartlett.
• BEGGARISM
  Beggary.
• BEGGARHOOD
  The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
• TINKERING
  The act or work of a tinker.
• BULLBEGGAR
  Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort .
• OUTTRAVEL
  To exceed in speed o Mad. D' Arblay.
• UNTRAVELED
  1. Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest. 2. Having never visited foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison.
• HEAVILY-TRAVELED; HEAVILY TRAVELED
  subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's most heavily traveled highways. Syn. -- heavily traveled.