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Travail(l)and, Trawailland, Travelland, ppl. adj. Also: travaling, travellyng. [ME and e.m.E. trauaillynge (Chaucer), traueling (c1420).] a. Suffering. b. That travels, journeying; itinerant.a. 1456 Hay I 3/28.
[To] put this travailland warld in pes and rest that now is put in grete pestilenceb. 1375 Barb. vii 243.
A trawailland man … That trawaillys her throw the contre 1456 Hay I 280/34.
A travailand knycht … that mycht defame the armes in ferr contreis a1500 Rauf C. 873.
Tell me thy name … thow trauelland knicht c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1577.
Trauellyng men may consydder best The montanis, … nyxt the southwest a1578 Pitsc. I 231/26.
[The king] wald oftymeis ludge in poore mens houssis as he had bene ane travelland man throw the contrie 1653 Lamont Diary 65.
[He] forgethered with a traualing boy … amonge his pease, and strake him so that the boy died
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