transambulate

English

Verb

transambulate (third-person singular simple present transambulates, present participle transambulating, simple past and past participle transambulated)

1. (rare, transitive) To walk through or across; to step over, especially to transit a threshold between one area and another.
   • 1937, John Charles Wilson, Television engineering, page 100:

     This can have the effect of markedly reducing the flicker of the image for a given basic picture speed; that is to say, if a complete traversal of the scene is carried out in k partial scans or frames, each of which substantially transambulates the image-field […]

   • 2014, Bernard Ewell, Artful Dodgers, page 166:

     As with all subjects, try to read and research as widely as possible, so you don't become like an explorer who believes he understands a whole country because he has traveled down a river or transambulated a province.

   • 2016, E. R. Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses:

     It is a nice point of disputation whether you did with tortoiselike slowness transambulate that lobby, so as in five hours to proceed but twenty paces […]