pilgrim

name

1. A surname.

noun

1. A settler of the Plymouth Colony, who left for the New World in the early 17th century.
2. Someone connected with Plymouth Argyle Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

verb

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pilegrim, from Old English pilegrī̆m, from Old French pelegrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner”). Doublet of peregrine. The change of /r…r/ to /l…r/ is an effect of dissimilation in early Romance; compare Italian pellegrino.

1. To make a pilgrimage

   “[T]o all galleries, churches, sistine chapels, ruins, coliseums, and artistic or dilettante shrines he zealously pilgrimed[.]”

   “The tzadikim founded residences, called "courts" by their adherents, whereto the chassidim […] used to pilgrim in order to receive inspiration and salvation”

2. To wander; to ramble.

   “For that he hath no certain home, or diet, but pilgrims up and down every where, feeding upon all sorts of Plants”