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Definition of traverse

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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..

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Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.

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..

Earthquake :: Earthquake (n.) A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock..

Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire..

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..

Travel :: Travel (v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent..

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..

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

Traverse :: Traverse (adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.

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..

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

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

Round :: Round (n.) A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman..

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

Transmeatable :: Transmeatable (a.) Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable.

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

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe..

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

Basin :: Basin (n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river..