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across; athwart
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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name
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A place name:
A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A place name:
An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A place name:
A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.
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History
From French travers (“breadth, extent from side”). See traverse.
From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.
