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A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.
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An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
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A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
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A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.
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A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.
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Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
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Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
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Athwart; across; crosswise.
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One of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.
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Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.
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A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
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A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.
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A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
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Across; athwart.
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The act of flying beyond or across.
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To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
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From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
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From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
v. t.
To cause to turn across; to transverse.
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A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.
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