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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Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire..
Walk :: Walk (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets..
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 (v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board..
Radiograph :: Radiograph (n.) A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays..
Trace :: Trace (v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Tubulidentate :: Tubulidentate (a.) Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) 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; that is, without this which follows..
Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who traverses, or denies..
Voyage :: Voyage (v. t.) To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
Hunt :: Hunt (v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country..
Bowshot :: Bowshot (n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon..
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..
Semidiurnal :: Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches..
Traversed :: Traversed (imp. & p. p.) of Travers.
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