Traverses is valid Scrabble Word

Is traverses a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for TRAVERSES in dictionary:

VERB:

TRAVERSE, to cross or pass through
travel across or through
extend across or through
cross a rock face by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another
ski diagonally across (a slope), losing only a little height
consider the whole extent of (a subject)
move back and forth or sideways
turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot) to face a different direction.
deny (an allegation) in pleading
oppose or thwart (a plan).

NOUN:

an act of traversing something
a rock face where traversing is necessary
a movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope
a zigzag course taken by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly towards its destination.
a part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something
a gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building.
a mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction
the sideways movement of a part in a machine.
a single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and measured distances between successive points.
an area of land surveyed with a traverse.
a pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to pass across or through

Words related to TRAVERSES

traverse11 traversed13 traversing14

How to use TRAVERSES in a sentence

He traverses Lancashire and a part of Yorkshire, and finds his forests nearly stripped of their deer, but can get no trace of the author of these extensive depredations.
The supply of air ascends from the ash pit through the grate bars, and the flame passes over a low wall or bridge, and traverses the bottom of the boiler.
It flows at the bottom of a gully about fifteen feet deep, which traverses the broad valley in a most tortuous course.
The train then traverses the oasis of the Atek, which is an important tributary of the Caspian.
The field which it traverses is narrower as regards space, but its spirit is large and generous, and its subject-matter is of the loftiest significance.
The frame, E, receives its horizontal to and fro motion from the rod, l, which traverses a stuffing-box and is moved by a crank on an eccentric, m.
The ground is so rocky that all you can do with it is to build walls and traverses.
The Dietina, a tributary of the Morava, traverses the town, and is crossed by two elegantly proportioned, but somewhat ruinous, bridges.
His pulpit is a fairly long gallery, which he traverses from one end to the other with as much agitation as regularity.
Traverses the whole length of the State, from the banks of the Mississippi and Lake Michigan to the Ohio.

THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD Traverses the whole length of the State, from the banks of the Mississippi and Lake Michigan to the Ohio.
Nearly all the east side street car lines touch it at some point, and the Third avenue line traverses its entire length.
Denis traverses the Rue Lafayette, a view of an Insurgent barricade, on which a red flag was still flying, and which was turned by the troops while we were there.
In its ceaseless progression and journeyings the atom becomes imbued with the virtues and powers of each degree or kingdom it traverses.
On each occasion the garrison merely took refuge behind the traverses.
A branch of the Great Indian Peninsula railway traverses the north of the country.
The concrete roofs of the ammunition rooms and barracks were shot to pieces and the traverses were reduced to rubbish heaps by the bursting of the numerous shells of the enemy.
As you know, a trench is dug and built with sandbags in zigzag traverses.
When a bombing-party bombs its way into possession of a section of German trench, there are Germans under cover of the traverses on either side.
Two or three lives are lost, it is said, whenever the Pasha, who drives furiously, traverses the city in a European equipage.
The Darling range traverses the whole of Western Australia in a direction, generally speaking, north and south.
Now the sun, in its apparent movement round the earth, traverses one degree in four minutes, or fifteen degrees an hour.
He set salmon-traps in the river Driva, which traverses the valley, and he caught many fish both in spring and autumn.
A bride without her bridegroom! A pang of mortification and pain shoots through me, as this thought traverses my soul.
The iron horse gives a sniff of disdain, and easily traverses the same distance, from the Missouri line to the Pacific Coast, in three days.
It is perfectly adjusted, and held in place by a screw that traverses the bottom of the instrument.
What star can this be that traverses this way? OLD M.
Or did he tell me, or did I only dream it? A light shadow cast by some invisible thing swiftly traverses the sunny face of nature and is gone.
Another road equally good, traverses the block from the western boundary.

Similar words containing TRAVERSE without suffix s

traverse11 traversed13 traverser12 traversers13 untraversed15

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