Definition of traverse

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

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Trace :: Trace (v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
Traverse :: Traverse (adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
Traversed :: Traversed (imp. & p. p.) of Travers.
Hunt :: Hunt (v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country..
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..
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..
Traverser :: Traverser (n.) A traverse table. See under Traverse, n..
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..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses..
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..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
Electrotonic :: Electrotonic (a.) Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) 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..
Course :: Course (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like..
Keel :: Keel (v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
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