[f. TRAVEL v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TRAVEL; journeying.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, II. 283. Sen þai come owt off trawelling.
1382. Wyclif, Jer. xxix. 18. Wery trauailing to alle rewmes.
a. 1568. Ascham, Scholem. (Arb.), 72. Disposed to prayse traueling, as a great commendacion.
1669. R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 458. There has been so much snow that … there is no travelling for the post.
1738. Chesterf., Common Sense, No. 93, ¶ 10. Travelling is, unquestionably, a very proper part of the education of our youth.
1847. Helps, Friends in C., I. vii. 112. Travelling is a great trial of people’s ability to live together.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 538. The gas is said to bear travelling through this length of pipe very well.
b. attrib. = of traveling, as traveling accomplishment, charge, companion, day, expenses, movement, pace, pay, power, propensity; esp. in sense ‘used, or adapted to be used, for or in traveling,’ or ‘carried or taken with one when traveling,’ as traveling album, arms, bag, baroscope, box, cap, carriage, chariot, chest, clock, commission, cup, dress, equipage, kitchen, pistol, suit, trunk; traveling-cabinet, a small chest of drawers secured by outer doors so as to be safely portable on a journey: much used in 17th c. (Cent. Dict.); traveling-carriage, a strong carriage used for traveling before railways were introduced; traveling-couvert [F. couvert = COVER sb.1 7], ‘a set of table utensils … made to pack closely, for use in traveling’ (Cent. Dict.); traveling fellowship, scholarship, a college fellowship or scholarship, given to enable the holder to travel for purposes of study or research; traveling road, Mining (see quot. 1883).
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, Wks. 1883, V. 495. A price that is often paid for *travelling accomplishments.
1709. Hearne, Collect., 7 March (O.H.S.), II. 174. Whose hand and signet I have in my *traveling Album.
1689. in Acts Parlt. Scotl. (1875), XII. 52/1. To make use of horses and ordinary *travelling armes in the countrey.
1862. Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit., II. No. 6932. Dressing cases, *travelling bags, and despatch boxes.
1669. Boyle, Contn. New Exp., xxii. The making of portable or *travelling baroscopes.
1835. Willis, Pencillings, I. vii. 43. The *travelling-books caution against sleeping in the carriage while passing these marshes.
1726. Swift, Gulliver, II. v. Glumdalclitch setting down my *travelling box, I went out of it to walk.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, i. 1. [I] pull my *travelling-cap over my eyes.
1798. S. Lee, Canterb. T., Yng. Lady’s T., II. 385. [He] purchased a *travelling-carriage.
1618. in J. Charnock, Hist. Mar. Arch. (1801), II. 236. For *travelling charges to solicit for money.
1852. Dickens, Bleak Ho., xii. The *travelling chariot rolls on to the house.
1902. R. Bagot, Donna Diana, ix. A *travelling clock on the writing-table.
1726. Swift, Gulliver, II. iv. It was always in my *travelling closet.
1813. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 67. The *travelling companion who was bundled into the mail.
1844. Louisa S. Costello, Béarn & Pyrenees, II. 88. In its snow-cold water I dipped my *travelling-cup.
1856. Bonar, Hymn, ‘I heard the voice of Jesus say,’ iii. In that light of life I’ll walk Till *travelling days are done.
1844. J. T. Hewlett, Parsons & W., xxiv. While Madeline was changing her *travelling-dress.
1797. F. Reynolds, The Will, III. i. Suppose I try to get our *travelling-expences out of him?
1789. J. Lewis’ Mem. Dk. Glocester, 87, note. [Dr. Radcliffe] also founded two *travelling Fellowships for young Physicians.
1782. J. Adams, Diary, 26 July. I had on my *travelling gloves.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 423. The rack … for regulating the *travelling-movement of the spinning or any other machine, on a rope-walk.
1815. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 57. Going over Uxbridge-common, at a regular *travelling pace.
1692. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), II. 401. On Friday next the persons belonging to the train for the descent enter into *travailling pay.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, X. ii. My *travelling pistols were already charged.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 538. As to storage and *travelling power, Mr. Hastings … reports favourably.
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-mining, *Travelling road, an underground passage … used expressly … for men to travel along to and from their working places.
1911. Act 1 & 2 Geo. V., c. 50 § 49. A person shall not … travel or work in any travelling road or working place which is not so made secure.
1867. Aug. J. E. Wilson, Vashti, xxvii. Elsie was waiting to clothe me in my *travelling-suit.
1779. Mirror, No. 17, ¶ 13. A draw-bridge, which … exactly resembled the lid of a *travelling-trunk.
