Crossword clues for travers
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Travers \Trav"ers\, adv. [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, [`a] travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a.] Across; athwart. [Obs.]
The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down,
and laid travers one over another.
--Ld. Berners.
Wiktionary
adv. (context obsolete English) across; athwart
Wikipedia
Travers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Allan Travers (1892–1968), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ben Travers (1886–1980), English writer
- Bill Travers (1922–1994), English actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist
- Bill Travers (baseball) (born 1952), former Major League Baseball pitcher
- David Travers, South Australian corporate advisor and former senior public servant
- Dow Travers (born 1987), Caymanian athlete
- George Travers (1888–1946), English footballer and FA Cup winner with Barnsley F.C.
- George Travers (rugby player) (1877–1945), Welsh international rugby union player
- Henry Travers (1874–1965), English actor
- James Travers (1820–1884), Anglo-Irish recipient of the Victorian Cross
- Jerome Travers (1887–1951), American amateur golfer
- Joe Travers (1871–1942), Australian cricketer
- John Travers (actor) (born 1989), Irish actor
- John Travers (composer) (1703–1758), English composer
- John Raymond Travers (born 1967), Australian convicted of the 1986 murder of Anita Cobby
- Linden Travers (1913–2001), British actress
- Mary Rose-Anna Travers (1894–1941), Québécoise singer known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc
- Mary Travers (journalist) (born 1958), American television journalist
- Mary Travers (1936–2009), American singer; member of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary
- Morris Travers (1872–1961), English chemist
- P. L. Travers (1899–1996), Australian author best known for Mary Poppins
- Paddy Travers (1883–1962), Scottish footballer and manager
- Pat Travers (born 1954), Canadian rock guitarist and singer
- Peter Travers, American film critic
- Sarah Travers (born 1974), Northern Irish journalist
- Susan Travers (1909–2003), English soldier and adventurer who served with the French Foreign Legion
- Thomas Otho Travers (1785–1844), Irish soldier, friend and aide-de-camp to Sir Stamford Rafffles
- Walter Travers (1548?–1635), English Puritan theologian
- William Travers (politician) (1819–1903), New Zealand lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist
- William R. Travers (1819–1887), American lawyer and investor
Fictional characters include:
- Angela Travers, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
- Boyd Travers, protagonist in the computer game Medal of Honor: Airborne
- Cody Travers, lead character in the Final Fight video games
- Dahlia Travers, known as Aunt Dahlia in P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
- Kyle Travers, Cody's brother and protagonist in the video game Final Fight:Streetwise
- Quentin Travers, a member of the Watchers' Council in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series
Travers may refer to:
- Travers (surname), a list of real and fictional people with this surname
- Travers, or haunches-in, a movement in dressage
- Travers, Alberta, a hamlet in Alberta, Canada
- Travers, Switzerland, a village in the canton of Neuchâtel, in the Val-de-Travers district
- Travers Reservoir in Alberta, Canada
- Travers River in New Zealand
- Travers SAR antenna, part of the Priroda module of the Russian space station Mir
- Travers Smith, a corporate law firm based in London
- Travers Stakes, a horse race held in Saratoga Springs, New York
Usage examples of "travers".
Helen fetched Miss Travers, and the schoolteacher lifted Sophie to her feet.
Her words made Sophie remember how attached Helen had been to Miss Travers even at Fort Martin.
May, it only makes the situation worse to talk about Amy Travers in front of him.
I told Miss Travers that story, Sally laughed, and so Miss Travers sent her from the room.
She pulled the curtain, closing herself in, then reread the passage Amy Travers had marked off.
Miss Travers was a tall woman, changed little in the many years since Sophie had last seen her.
Miss Travers put her hand out, and when Sophie took it, she was surprised at its heavy softness.
Sophie saw the schoolteacher looking at her waved hair, her light blue gown, and she realized Miss Travers was seeking evidence of frivolity.
But all the while, her thoughts were on Helen and how close Miss Travers and Helen had been.
For a moment Miss Travers had seemed close to telling Sophie something, but now she was slipping neatly out of her questions.
Miss Travers drove out of Cheyenne, and as the town grew small in the distance, Sophie realized this was the first time in many years she had been out on the prairie in anything but a train.
After nearly two hours, Miss Travers pointed out a shape on the horizon.
Miss Travers slowed to cross the small creek, then urged the old roan on for the last two or three hundred yards, stopping abruptly when she came to the first of the rectangular buildings, a wooden shack with the windows broken out.
Sophie rushed on into the shack and found Miss Travers kneeling beside a prostrate figure, a woman incongruously dressed in red, who was sprawled near a hole in the middle of the shack floor.
When Sophie rushed back in, Miss Travers was holding a hoe with a long wooden handle.