Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton.

The ridges of the fallow field traverse. Hayward.

Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.

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To work, or solve, a traverse (Naut.), to reduce a series of courses or distances to an equivalent single one; to calculate the resultant of a traverse. -- Traverse board (Naut.), a small board hung in the steerage, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watch. It is used for recording the courses made by the ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the corresponding hole. -- Traverse jury (Law), a jury that tries cases; a petit jury. -- Traverse sailing (Naut.), a sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship. -- Traverse table. (a) (Naut. *** Surv.) A table by means of which the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the hypothenuse, from 1 to 100. (b) (Railroad) A platform with one or more tracks, and arranged to move laterally on wheels, for shifting cars, etc., from one line of track to another.

The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. Dryden.

I can not but . . . admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse. Sir W. Scott.

What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope.

My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice -- ingratitude. South.

And save the expense of long litigious laws,
Where suits are traversed, and so little won
That he who conquers is but last undone. Dryden.

To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft.

To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse. Shak.