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A horizontal beam that extends across something
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traverse
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traverse \Trav"erse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traversed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Traversing .] [Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse , a.] To lay in a cross direction; to cross. The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. --Dryden. To cross ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Lying across; being in a direction across something else. adv. athwart; across; crosswise n. 1 (context climbing English) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent. 2 (context ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A traverse is a lateral move or route when climbing or descending (including skiing ); meaning any movement operation going mainly sideways rather than up or down. The general sense of 'a Traverse' is to cross, or cut across ; and in general mountaineering, ...
Usage examples of traverse.
Coango, an affluent of the Congo, and after having traversed the continent from the extreme south to the east he reached St.
Their other ally, Grigoriev, was of little use at the time, as he was traversing the most chaotic and anarchic period of his life.
She was delivered of a normal living child, with the exception that the helix of the left ear was pushed anteriorly, and had, in its middle, a deep incision, which also traversed the antihelix and the tragus, and continued over the cheek toward the nose, where it terminated.
The explanation of these exhibitions is as follows: The instrument enters the mouth and pharynx, then the esophagus, traverses the cardiac end of the stomach, and enters the latter as far as the antrum of the pylorus, the small culdesac of the stomach.
He led the way out of the lodge, then, turning sharply to his left, he reached the wide quadrangle with the covered passage running right round it, the same which de Batz had traversed two evenings ago when he went to visit Heron.
His goal was the inn, and he had been advised in Berwick to cross the Yonder by what was known as the Roman Brig, and then to bend right through a firwood, to cross a strip of moor, to traverse the village of Yonder, and so find the inn a mile beyond on the hill above the stream.
Cerryl slipped back toward Beryal, his eyes traversing the square-no sign of golden-red hair.
Grecian altar screen of Bishop Bisse they were struck by the traces of Norman mouldings, whilst on traversing the clerestory gallery the remains of Norman ornaments were everywhere to be found, the gallery itself being still existent at each side, returned behind the wooden coverings, up to the splays of the eastern windows.
To my relief, my guard remained blessedly silent as we traversed its marbled halls, contenting himself with hovering behind me and scowling at everyone we passed.
Its trunk, branchless for sixty feet, was too thick to climb, but he found a younger and slimmer tree, up which he could squirm and from its upper branches traverse to the other.
There seemed the less objection to their doing so since this tract of country, though traversed once both by Buller and by French, had still remained a stronghold of the Boers and a storehouse of supplies.
To arrive unwelcomed at an inn--to wander through unknown streets and cities, without any stimulus of interest or curiosity--to traverse vast tracts of country, useless to others, a burthen to himself--alone, this would have been intolerable.
He committed the wild imprudence of traversing the Maremma in August, and was killed by the poisonous exhalations.
Rome, traversed the Maremma with a small band of friends, and appeared, when he was least expected, in the midst of his enemies.
The medulla oblongata is traversed by a longitudinal fissure, continuous with that of the spinal cord.