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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Ăm'bu-lā'tor, n.

noun

n. 1. One who walks about.

  1. (Nat. Hist.) (a.) A certain species of insect; Lamia. (b.) A certain genus of birds.
  2. (Surv.) An instrument for measuring distances; called also perambulator. Ogilvie.