travers

French travers (“breadth, extent from side”). See traverse.

travers (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) across; athwart
   • 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     The earl […] caused […] high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another.

• “travers”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• starver

Inherited from Vulgar Latin traversus, from Latin trānsversus. Doublet of transverse.

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.vɛʁ/

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travers m (plural travers)

1. outside (the external part of)
2. wide side (the side of which the width is measured)
3. (historical) border toll

• à travers
• au travers de
• traverser

• “travers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• verrats

• IPA^(key): /traˈvɛrs/

travers

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travers n (plural traversuri)

1. Obsolete form of traversă.

• travers in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Borrowed from French traverse.[1]

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈβeɾs/
• Hyphenation: tra‧vers

travers (definite accusative traversi, plural traversler)

1. (rail transport) A sleeper for railroad tracks; a railroad tie.

• “travers”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “travers”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4897