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wayfarer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wayfarer \Way"far`er\, n. One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A traveller, especially one on foot. 2 A type of glasses, with pointed ends and rounded bottoms.
WordNet
n. walks from place to place
goes on a trip [syn: journeyer]
Wikipedia
The Wayfarer is a wooden or fibreglass hulled fractional Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy of great versatility; used for short 'day boat' trips, longer cruises and for racing. Over 10,800 have been produced as of 2014.
The boat is 15 feet 10 inches (4.82 m) long, and broad and deep enough for three adults to comfortably sail for several hours. Longer trips are undertaken by enthusiasts, notably the late Frank Dye who sailed W48 'Wanderer' from Scotland to Iceland and Norway, crossing the North Sea twice. The Wayfarer's size, stability and seaworthiness have made it popular with sailing schools, and led it to be used as a family boat in a wide variety of locations.
Not only a versatile cruising dinghy, Wayfarers are also raced with a Portsmouth Number of 1101. As of 2013, it has a Portsmouth Yardstick rating of 91.6.
From the original wooden design by Ian Proctor in 1957 many subsequent versions of the Wayfarer have been produced. There is also a double-hulled Canadian clone, known as the CL 16, featuring a simplified rig but otherwise also identical. Genuine Wayfarers can be identified by the "W" symbol on their sails.
The sail plan consists of a Marconi rig with a main, jib, and symmetrical spinnaker. The boat uses a retractable Centreboard. An optional Asymmetrical spinnaker and spinnaker chute is available; also available is a "sail patch" which provides flotation for the mast in the event of a capsize (and particularly to prevent mast inversion Turtling).
One-design racing is active and competitive regionally, nationally and internationally.
A wayfarer is a person who travels on foot.
Wayfarer may also refer to:
- Wayfarer (dinghy), a class of sailboat
- Wayfarer, the common name for Viburnum lantana, which commonly grows by ancient roads and tracks in the UK, hence its name.
- Wayfarers (role-playing game)
- Ray-Ban Wayfarer, a model of sunglasses
- A Wayfarer in China, a 1913 book by Elizabeth Kendall
- The Wayfarer, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch
- The Wayfarer (novel), a 1912 novel by Natsume Sōseki
- Wayfarer (album), a 1983 album by Jan Garbarek
- Wayfarer, a public transport ticket-issuing machine manufactured by Parkeon
- The Wayfarers Trio, with Mason Williams, Baxter Taylor and Billy Cheatwood
- "Wayfarer", a 2002 song by Hot Water Music from Caution
- "The Wayfarer", a 2002 song by Nightwish from Century Child
- "Wayfarer", a 2003 song by Kayo Dot from Choirs of the Eye
- "Wayfarer" (band), a musical group from Southern Ontario, Canada
- "Wayfarer", a 2012 trance track by Audien
- "Wayfarer", a 2014 album by Nell Bryden, and a song on the album
- "Wayfarer" (band), a metal band from Denver, Colorado signed to " Prosthetic Records"
Wayfarer is an album by the Jan Garbarek Group, featuring the Norwegian saxophonist Garbarek with Bill Frisell, Eberhard Weber and Michael Di Pasqua. It was released in 1983 on the ECM label.
The Allmusic review awards the album 3 stars.
Usage examples of "wayfarer".
Thus then they abode a-feasting till the sun was westering and the shadows waxed about them, and then at last Ralph rose up and called to horse, and the other wayfarers arose also, and the horses were led up to them.
A few shepherds they fell in with, who were short of speech, after the manner of such men, but deemed a greeting not wholly thrown away on such goodly folk as those wayfarers.
So he stayed his band, and had Ursula into the rearward, and bade all men look to their weapons, and then they went forward heedfully and in good order, and presently not only Ralph, but all of them could see men standing in the jaws of the pass with the wood on either side of them, and though at first they doubted if these were aught but mere strong-thieves, such as any wayfarers might come on, they had gone but a little further when Michael knew them for the riders of Cheaping Knowe.
Had it not been for the horse and the dogs he might have hoped for a swaggie or some down-and equals out wayfarer caught, trapped.
Leaving the thumbless archer and his brood, the wayfarers struck through the scattered huts of Emery Down, and out on to the broad rolling heath covered deep in ferns and in heather, where droves of the half-wild black forest pigs were rooting about amongst the hillocks.
Sometimes I went in the boar-ornamented armor and other insignia of my marshalcy, sometimes in the elegant raiment that a herizogo or dux is entitled to flaunt, but most often I went in the anonymous dress of a simple country wayfarer.
Though up until now Reamer had been a wayfarer and Greene had been a spacefarer, their paths crossed often enough for them to know they liked each other.
The wayfarers seemed unusually coarse and jostling that evening, Percival thought, the pavement peculiarly miry, the flaring gaslights very cruel to the unloveliness of the scene.
Men with ready crossbows guarded the road-gate that let wayfarers into the innyard, and they were not used to regarding folk who came afoot out of the deep forest in a kindly manner.
It was, he thought, the rarest of Samaritans, who had no interest in the private life of its wounded wayfarer.
But as regards men who are wholly wayfarers, their grace can be increased not merely on the part of the form, since they have not attained the highest degree of grace, but also on the part of the subject, since they have not yet attained their end.
Hence He was at once comprehensor, inasmuch as He had the beatitude proper to the soul, and at the same time wayfarer, inasmuch as He was tending to beatitude, as regards what was wanting to His beatitude.
But because Christ was both wayfarer and comprehensor, He did not need to be instructed by angels, as regards knowledge of Divine things.
Viking outfit drank beer with a saturnine, well-used wayfarer in floppy seaboots and a ruffled black shirt.
And amongst the foemen, who were indeed very many, was huge dismay, so that they made but a sorry defence before the band of the wayfarers, who knew not what to make of it, till they noted that arrows and casting-spears were coming out of the wood on either side, which smote none of them, but many of the foemen.