To Traverse

1. (transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
2. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
4. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
5. (climbing), To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
6. (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
7. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
8. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
9. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
10. (law) To deny formally.
11. (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.