Definition of traverse

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Traverse (v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other..

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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..
Traverser :: Traverser (n.) A traverse table. See under Traverse, n..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe..
Walk :: Walk (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets..
Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Unthread :: Unthread (v. t.) To make one's way through; to traverse; as, to unthread a devious path..
Parados :: Parados (n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse..
Pathfinder :: Pathfinder (n.) One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
Traverse :: Traverse (v. i.) 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..
Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire..
Traverse :: Traverse (v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing..
Trance :: Trance (v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
Electrode :: Electrode (n.) The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current..
Jump :: Jump (n.) The space traversed by a leap.
Tubulidentate :: Tubulidentate (a.) Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.
Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream..
Traverse :: Traverse (v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other..
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