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traverser|ˈtrævəsə(r), trəˈvɜːsə(r)|
Also 7 traueser.
[f. traverse v. + -er1.]
One who or that which traverses.
1. A person or thing that crosses or passes over.
1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 1 The two trauesers about the Sunne, called Venus and Mercury. 1830Howitt Seasons (1837) 3 A dismal time for the traversers of wide and open heaths.
†2. = traverse n. 16. Obs. rare.
1645Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 159 Y⊇ town..was made a kind of Garison wth some traversers and light works built about it.
3. Law. One who traverses a plea.
1812Examiner 21 Sept. 607/1 The traverser was prevented from hanging himself. 1886Dowden Shelley (1887) I. vi. 240 The charge of Chief Justice Downes made clear the case against the traverser.
4. On a railway: A platform, moving laterally on wheels, by which trucks or carriages may be shifted from one set of rails to another parallel to it.
1851T. Dunn in Pract. Mechanic's Jrnl. III. 258, I was the first person who invented a traverser. 1878F. S. Williams Midl. Railw. 643 The truck is now clear, and..will be run on to the ‘traverser’, and..drawn sideways on to the next line of rails. |