An actor who travels from town to town.
"When they travell thus on foote, they are no more call'd Rancke-riders, but Strowlers, a proper name given to Country players, that trotte from towne to towne upon the hard hoofe."
Thomas Dekker, Lanthorne and Candle-light, or the bell-mans second nights-walke (1608).
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