Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Travers

Travers , adverb

[French travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a.]

Across; athwart. [Obsolete]
The earl... caused... high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. — Ld. Berners