4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding
the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and
sliding thereon.
Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with
white flowers. — Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.
Trav"el-taint`ed (?), a. Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Obs.] Shak.
Trav"ers (?), adv. [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers,
en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a.] Across;
athwart. [Obs.]
The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid
travers one over another.
Ld. Berners.
Trav"ers*a*ble (?), a. 1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over;
as, a traversable region.
2. Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a
traversable presentment. Sir M. Hale.
Trav"erse (?), a. [OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere
to turn or direct across. See Transverse, and cf. Travers.] Lying
across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with
traverse trenches.
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.
Trav"erse (?), adv. Athwart; across; crosswise.
Trav"erse, n. [F. traverse. See Traverse, a.] 1. Anything that
traverses, or crosses. Specifically: —
(a) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident;
as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not
under his control.
(b) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
Men drinken and the travers draw anon.
Chaucer.
And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn.
F. Beaumont.
(c) (Arch.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a
church or other large building. Gwilt.
(d) (Fort.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire,
along exposed passage, or line of work.
(e) (Law) 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; that is, without
this which follows.
(f) (Naut.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from
one place to another; a compound course.
(g) (Geom.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
(h) (Surv.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
(i) (Gun.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired
direction.