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English word travis comes from Latin vertere, Latin trans (Across, beyond.)

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vertere (Latin)

trans (Latin)

Across, beyond.

traverser (Old French)

To traverse; to cross; to go across.

traverse (English)

(artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.. (climbing) , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).. (engineering) , (skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.. (legal) To deny formally.. (transitive) To [...]

travis (English)

(British) A screen or partition between stable stalls.. (obsolete) A beam; a lay of joints; a traverse.. (obsolete) A wooden frame to confine a horse while the smith is setting his shoes. (archaic) Lying across, traverse.

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