Traverse-table

trav'ers-ta'bl, n. a table or plat- form for shifting carriages to other rails Travesty, trav'es-ti, adj having on the vesture or dre of another: disguised so as to be ridiculous. — n. a kind of burlesque in which the original characters are preserved, the situations parodied, —v to turn into burlesque [Fr. travestir, to disguise —L. trans, over, vestio, to clothe.]