What is the name meaning of TRAVERS. Phrases containing TRAVERS
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TRAVERS
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : occupational name for a gatherer of tolls exacted for the right of passage across a bridge, ford, or other thoroughfare, from Middle English, Old French travers ‘passage’, ‘crossing’, from Old French traverser ‘to cross’.Northern Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Treabhair (see Trevor).A Travers from the Poitou region of France is documented in Quebec City in 1712, with the secondary surname Sansregret.
Boy/Male
French
From the crossroads.
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
At the Crossing
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Norman French word traverser, TRAVERS means "to cross," a name used for someone who was a "collector of bridge or road tolls." Compare with Travis.Â
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit
One who can Traverse the Skies or Fly
Male
Norse
Old Norse name SLEIPNIR means "gliding; smooth." In mythology, this was the name of Óðinn's grey, eight-legged steed, the greatest of all horses which could traverse either land or sea. He was the offspring of Loki (transformed into a mare) and Svadilfari.
Boy/Male
Australian, Chinese, Christian, French, Latin
Toll Taker; From the Crossroads; Collector of Tolls
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, German, Latin
To Cross the River; Form of Travers; Crossroads; Crossing; Toll Taker; Collector of Tolls
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Middle English word travis, TRAVIS means "crossing," a derivative of Old French traverser "to cross," a name used for someone who was a "collector of bridge or road tolls."Â
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English (mainly Lancashire and Yorkshire)
English (mainly Lancashire and Yorkshire) : occupational name for a gatherer of tolls exacted for the right of passage across a bridge, ford, or other thoroughfare, from Middle English travis ‘crossing’, variant of travers (see Travers).German : Americanized variant of Drewes.
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v. t.
To make one's way through; to traverse; as, to unthread a devious path.
n.
A traverse table. See under Traverse, n.
a.
To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
v. t.
To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
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.
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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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Traverse
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.
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Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment.
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To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
n.
One who traverses, or denies.
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.
n.
One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.
a.
Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
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Anything that traverses, or crosses.
v. t.
To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
v. t.
To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
a.
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
imp. & p. p.
of Traverse
a.
Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.