transversary
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]transversary (plural transversaries)
- (now historical) A cross-beam or cross-bar, for example on a navigational cross-staff. (Compare transom.)
- 1888, William John Gordon, The Captain-general: Being the Story of the Attempt of the Dutch to Colonize New Holland:
- There was a “pole” duly graduated, and on it, so as to slip up and down, were certain cross-pieces known as “transversaries.”
- 1992, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror:
- 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.
Adjective
[edit]transversary (not comparable)
- Transverse.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:transversary.