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.

Trav"el (?), v. t. 1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." Milton.

2. To force to journey. [R.]

They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises.

Trav"el, n. 1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

With long travel I am stiff and weary.

His travels ended at his country seat.

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. [Obs.]

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.

Trav"el (?), v. t. 1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." Milton.

2. To force to journey. [R.]

They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises.

Trav"el, n. 1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

With long travel I am stiff and weary.

His travels ended at his country seat.

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. [Obs.]

• To go from one country to another for pleasure or business.
       I like to travel.
  
• To go from one place to another; to pass from here to there, to move or transmit.
       Soundwaves can travel through water
  
• (basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  
• To travel throughout (a place).
       I've travelled the world.
  
• The act of travel(l)ing.
       space travel
       travel to Spain
  
• (in plural travels) Journeys, travel(l)ing.
       I'm off on my travels around France again.
  
• The amount by which something can move.
       There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.