Traverse ¹

Definition: Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

Traverse ²

Definition: Athwart; across; crosswise.

Traverse ³

Definition: Anything that traverses, or crosses.

Traverse ⁴

Definition: Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.

Traverse ⁵

Definition: A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.

Traverse ⁶

Definition: A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

Traverse ⁷

Definition: A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.

Traverse ⁸

Definition: A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.

Traverse ⁹

Definition: The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

Traverse ¹⁰

Definition: A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

Traverse ¹¹

Definition: A line surveyed across a plot of ground.

Traverse ¹²

Definition: The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.

Traverse ¹³

Definition: A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.

Traverse ¹⁴

Definition: To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

Traverse ¹⁵

Definition: To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.

Traverse ¹⁶

Definition: To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.

Traverse ¹⁷

Definition: To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

Traverse ¹⁸

Definition: To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

Traverse ¹⁹

Definition: To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.

Traverse ²⁰

Definition: To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.

Traverse ²¹

Definition: To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.

Traverse ²²

Definition: To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.

Traverse ²³

Definition: To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

traverse ²⁴

Definition: travel across

traverse ²⁵

Definition: taking a zigzag path on skis

traverse ²⁶

Definition: a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it

traverse ²⁷

Definition: a horizontal beam that extends across something

traverse ²⁸

Definition: deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit

traverse ²⁹

Definition: travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost miles each day"

traverse ³⁰

Definition: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"