Meaning of Traverse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
2. A surname from French.
3. A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
4. A screen or partition.
   obsolete
5. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
6. A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
7. 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", i.e. without what follows).
8. The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
9. A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
10. In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
11. A traverse board.

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Examples

“At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.”

“Than sholde ye see⟳ there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see⟳, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be […]”

“At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.”

“He will succeed⟳, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control⟳.”

“At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs.”

“The whole care of the vessel rested, therefore, upon me, and I was obliged to direct⟳ her by my former experience⟳, not being able to work⟳ a traverse.”

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