†P2. through the travers: throughout; right across. Obsolete. [After Middle French par le travers (15th cent. in the passage translated in quot. 1490).]
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through the travers1490
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxviii. 576 [He] went..thrugh the travers of the wodes wel the space of viii dayes.