traveling forge

The wagon, with its tools and stores, which accompanies a battery of field artillery for the purpose of repairs. *trăv'-ērs, adv . & 8. [Fr.] [TRAVERSE, a.] A. As adv .: Acro , athwart. "The erle Lazaran caused forestes and hyghe trees to be hewen downe, and layde trauers one ouer another."Berners: Froi art; Cronycle , vol. ii., ch. xli. B. As subst.: A skeleton-frame which holds the bobbins of yarn, which are wound therefrom on to the warp-frame.