transversary
transversary noun: a cross-beam or cross-bar, for example on a navigational cross-staff. (Compare transom.).
Noun
transversary (plural transversaries)
- A cross-beam or cross-bar, for example on a navigational cross-staff. (Compare transom.)
- There was a “pole” duly graduated, and on it, so as to slip up and down, were certain cross-pieces known as “transversaries.”1888, William John Gordon, The Captain-general: Being the Story of the Attempt of the Dutch to Colonize New Holland
- In Coignet's cross-staff not one but three transversaries are used. With these transversaries angles between respectively 90° and 30°, 30° and 10° and less than 10° are measured.1992, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror
Adjective
transversary (not comparable)
- Transverse.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:transversary.
Forms of transversary
| plural | transversaries |
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Questions about transversary
- What does transversary mean?
- Transversary means a cross-beam or cross-bar, for example on a navigational cross-staff. (Compare transom.).
- What part of speech is transversary?
- Transversary can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of transversary?
- The plural of transversary is transversaries.
Words near transversary in the dictionary
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