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Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse..

Odometer :: Odometer (n.) An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed..

Bowshot :: Bowshot (n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

Nautilus :: Nautilus (n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata..

Perineum :: Perineum (n.) The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum..

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

Keel :: Keel (v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

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

Semidiurnal :: Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc..

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

Barruly :: Barruly (a.) Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who traverses, or denies..

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

Wander :: Wander (v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

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

Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..

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