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traverser

  • a word derived from traverse.
    traverse
    verb (used with object)
    to pass or move over, along, or through.

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What Harrison missed about her subject is that Lee has never been anything other than a first-rate color-line traverser.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2017

His case being destitute of such proof, the traverser was entitled to a verdict in his favor.

From The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. by Unknown

Should there be gantry staging on the site, the piles can be pitched from a traverser, or by means of an ordinary crab winch.

From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman

The traverser defends himself by justifying the libels.

From The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. by Unknown

Witness would not now know the handwriting of the traverser.

From The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. by Unknown