traverse

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.

At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.

A screen or partition.

Than sholde ye see there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be […]

At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.

Something that thwarts or obstructs.

He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.

A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.

He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.

What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought! / Your country's peace how oft, how dearly bought!

To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

to traverse all nodes in a network

To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.

To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

to traverse a cannon

To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).

athwart; across; crosswise