traverser

• a word derived from traverse.

Example Sentences

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

Two things, Mr. Coxe said, must combine to bring the traverser, in this case, within the law, if indeed there was any law to meet the case.

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

The next evidence for the prosecution was found in the pamphlets thus stolen, and the possession of them by the traverser was alleged as proof of their publication by him.

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 Newman, John Henry

French-Canadian voyageurs, a century previous, finding the weather-washed ravines wicked to travel through, spoke of them as mauvaises terres pour traverser, and the name clung.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann

Related Words

• criss-cross
• cross
• cut across
• pass through
• span
• travel over