Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Travers \Trav"ers\, adv. [F. travers, breadth, extent from side,
   [`a] travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See
   {Traverse}, a.]
   Across; athwart. [Obs.]

         The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down,
         and laid travers one over another.       --Ld. Berners.