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Travers

adv, name

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    across; athwart not-comparable, obsolete

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. 2
    A place name:; A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.
  3. 3
    A place name:; An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.
  4. 4
    A place name:; A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.

Etymology 2

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

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