"Traverse" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

In the language of plead-ing, a traverse slgnifies a denial. Thus; where a defendant denies any materlal allegation of fact in the plaintiff’s declaration, he is said to traverse it, and the plea Itself is thence frequently termed a “traverse.” Brown

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.

The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any
desired direction.

The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing
from one place to another; a compound course.

To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as,
to traverse a board.

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.

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.

A line lying across a figure or other lines; a
transversal.

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

Lying across; being in a direction across something else;
as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point
in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.

To use the posture or motions of opposition or
counteraction, as in fencing.

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.

To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse
the habitable globe.

A line surveyed across a plot of ground.

To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his
croup to one side and his head to the other.

To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles;
to obstruct; to bring to naught.

To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the
like.

A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse
fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.

Athwart; across; crosswise.

Anything that traverses, or crosses.

To pass over and view; to survey carefully.