traverse

A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.

A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.

A screen or partition.

Something that thwarts or obstructs.

“He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.”

A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

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", i.e. without what follows).

The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.

A traverse board.

To travel across, often under difficult conditions.

“He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.”

To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

“to traverse all nodes in a network”

To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

(artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

“to traverse a cannon”

, To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).

To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.

“The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.”

To act against; to thwart or obstruct.

To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.

“to traverse a board”

To deny formally.

To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

“paths cut with traverse trenches”

Athwart; across; crosswise