A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
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.
(obsolete) A screen or partition.
Something that thwarts or obstructs.
A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
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).
The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
A traverse board.

(transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
(transitive) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
To deny formally.
(intransitive) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

athwart; across; crosswise

Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

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