trave, trevve

[O. Fr.traf =a beam; Fr. tref, from Lat. trabem, acc us. of trabs, trabes =a beam; Fr. entraver to shackle or fetter the legs; entraves shackles, fetters.] [TRAVAIL, 8.] *1. A cro -beam; a beam or timber-work cro ing a building. "The ceiling and traves are, after the Turkish manner, richly painted and gilded." - Maundrell : Travels , p. 125. 2. A wooden frame or stocks to confine a horse or ox while shoeing. "She sprong as a colt doth in the trave." Chaucer: C. T., 3,282. trăv-el, * trav-ail, * trav-eil, v. i. & t. [The same word as travail (q. v.).] A. Intransitive : *1. To labor, to toil, to travail. "If we labor to maintain truth and reason, let not any think that we travel about a matter not needful." Hooker. 2. To pa or make a journey from one place to another, either on foot or horseback, or on any con veyance, as a ship, carriage, .; to go to or visit distant or foreign places; to journey. "Like a thirsty train That long have travell'd through a desert plain." Dryden: Virgil , Georgic iv. 147. 3. Specif .: To go about from place to place or to make journeys for the purpose of soliciting or obtaining orders for goods, collecting accounts, ., for a commercial firm; as, He travels for such and such a firm. 4. To proceed, move, pa , or advance in any way; to make progre . "Time travels in divers paces with divers persons." Shakesp.: As You Like It, iii. 2. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; B. Transitive : traveler's joy 1. To journey over; to traverse. I travel this profound." "Thither to arrive Milton. P. L., ii. 980. *2. To cause or force to journey. "There are other privileges granted unto most of the corporations, that they shall not be charged with garrisons, and they shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises."-Spenser: State of Ireland.