Traverse

(trăv'urs.) [From Fr. traverser, to cro .] (Fort.) A trench with a little parapet for protecting men on the flank; also a wall raised acro a work.(Law.) A denial of what the opposite party has advanced in any stage of the pleadings. (Navig.) T.sailing is the mode of computing the place of a ship by reducing several short courses made by sudden shifts or turns to one longer course. [s. 905]