\Trav"ers\, adv. [F. travers, breadth, extent from side,
[`a] travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See
{Traverse}, a.]
Across; athwart. [Obs.]
      The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down,
      and laid travers one over another.       --Ld. Berners.