Definition of traverse

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Traverse (a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work..

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Bowshot :: Bowshot (n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.
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..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) 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 :: Traverse (a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
Pathfinder :: Pathfinder (n.) One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
Rheophore :: Rheophore (n.) A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current..
Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope..
Journey :: Journey (v. t.) To traverse; to travel over or through.
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.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
Tubulidentate :: Tubulidentate (a.) Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work..
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 (a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon..
Unthread :: Unthread (v. t.) To make one's way through; to traverse; as, to unthread a devious path..
Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire..
Hunt :: Hunt (v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current..
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..
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