Clues for the word "TRAVERSE"
We've had 26 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 38 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on May 11, 2026.
Definition of traverse
- a. - Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
- adv. - Athwart; across; crosswise.
- a. - Anything that traverses, or crosses.
- 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.
- a. - A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
- a. - A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- a. - A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
- a. - 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.
- a. - The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- a. - A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- a. - A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
- a. - The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
- a. - A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
- a. - To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- a. - To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
- a. - To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
- a. - To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- a. - To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
- a. - To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
- a. - To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
- v. i. - To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
- v. i. - To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
- v. i. - To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
Referring Clues
- Cross
- Crosspiece
- Extend over
- Go from border to border
- Cross over
- Move across
- Pass through
- Go across
- Pass over
- Travel across
- Extended form one side to the other
- Move through
- Cross after very cunning set-up - language!
- Reject paintings and poetry being cross
- Cross note about partygoers
- English leader makes a playwright cross
- Trustee's ill-disposed and cross
- Go over new art and poetry
- Ben taking drug gets cross
- Cross note written about noisy partygoers
- Cross, dramatist at rear of theatre
- A master of light farce with point to get across
- Partygoers given drug after little time, getting 23
- Cross between painting (with backing) and poetry
- Go over revolutionary art and poetry
- Make a journey across
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - May 11, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - October 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 12, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 08, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - February 01, 2018
- Netword - November 26, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - August 31, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - August 23, 2017
- Universal - May 02, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 28, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - January 13, 2014
- Guardian Quick - November 19, 2013
- LA Times - May 05, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - March 13, 2012
- Netword - November 03, 2011
- Guardian Prize - March 19, 2011
- Netword - February 20, 2011
- Guardian Everyman - January 23, 2011
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 04, 2010
- I Swear Crossword - April 16, 2010
- Guardian Quick - February 20, 2010
- Guardian Quick - July 24, 2008
- Guardian Prize - June 21, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - June 17, 2008
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 19, 2007
- Washington Post - September 18, 2007
- Guardian Quiptic - June 18, 2007
- Universal - June 06, 2007
- Guardian Everyman - January 28, 2007
- And in 8 more crossword puzzles...