To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
To sail about, especially for pleasure.
To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group).
To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
To win easily and convincingly.
To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group. See Cruising (driving).
A small cup; cruse.
A period spent in the Marine Corps.
To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
To deny formally.
To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
athwart; across; crosswise
Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
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", i.e. without what follows).
Something that thwarts or obstructs.
The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
A traverse board.