[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That traverses; crossing, transverse.
1561. Eden, Arte Nauig., III. ix. 73. See also that the markes whiche you make in the yarde [= cross-staff], be trauersyng lines.
1771. Luckombe, Hist. Print., 476. In distributing of Musical Notes,… care ought to be taken to save the edges of the traversing lines from battering.
1865. Gillespie, Argt. Being & Attrib. God, III. ii. (1910), 93. Other lines, some of them … traversing lines, besides the main line of life.
b. In specific collocations: see quots.
Traversing jury, a traverse jury (see TRAVERSE sb. 23).
1823. Rep. Sel. Comm. Sewers Metrop., 17. A traversing jury.
1828. Spearman, Brit. Gunner (ed. 2), 63. The guns are mounted on traversing platforms, and, in that case, fire over the epaulement.
1829. Marryat, F. Mildmay, xvii. The traversing beam of a steamboat.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., Traversing-jack, a. A jack used for engines or carriages upon the rails. b. A lifting-apparatus, the standard of which has a movement on its bed, enabling it to be applied to different parts of an object or used for shifting objects horizontally without moving the bed. Ibid., Traversing pulley, a pulley so arranged as to traverse upon a rope or rod.
1878. F. S. Williams, Midl. Railw., 664. Sidings and traversing tables will be laid between all these various shops, and also through them, so that there will always be more than one way by which trollies or trains can get in and out.
1884. C. G. W. Lock, Workshop Receipts, Ser. III. 294/1. The traversing mandril should be made of the very finest steel.
1887. D. A. Low, Machine Draw. (1892), 96. The lever … for turning the horizontal screw of a traversing screw jack.
