ppl. a. [f. TRAVEL v. + -ED1.]
1. That has traveled, esp. to distant countries; experienced in travel. Also with adv. as far-traveled. Also transf.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), IV. xxxiii. 81. Auncyen trauayled men that ben experte in dedes of armes.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. clxviii. 469. A well trauelled knight and well knowen.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., I. iii. 19. The reformation of our trauel’d Gallants.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 45, ¶ 3. One of these Travelled Ladies.
1780. Mirror, No. 97, ¶ 18. Nothing can be more grotesque than her travelled language.
1821. Byron, Juan, IV. lxxxviii. You Have got a travell’d air.
2. Geol. Of blocks, boulders, etc.: Transported to a distance from their original site, as by glacial action; erratic.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 175. That the position … of a great portion of these travelled materials should now appear most irregular [etc.]. Ibid. (1833), Elem. Geol., xi. (1874), 146. The multitude of ‘travelled’ blocks and striated rocks.
1842. Sedgwick, in Hudson’s Guide Lakes (1843), 196. The travelled bowlders of Shap granite.
1880. A. R. Wallace, Isl. Life, vii. 106. The phenomenon of travelled or perched blocks is also a common one in all glacier countries.
b. Of earth or soil: That is not in situ; that has been brought to, or deposited in, the place where it is; made up, artificial. Sc.
1802. Playfair, Illustr. Hutton. Th., 197. I am not sure whether this earth is travelled or not.
1805. Forsyth, Beauties Scotl., I. 16. The whole ground … is formed, not of natural, but of what builders term travelled earth.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xxiii. It’s travell’d earth that,… it howks sae eithly.
1839. D. D. Black, Hist. Brechin, 273. Travelled or artificial earth has repeatedly been found, at a great depth.
3. Of a road, etc.: Frequented by travelers.
1882. B. Harte, Flip, ii. It [dawn] came with … voices in the travelled roads and trails.
