What's in a Name? The Traverses.

[Mark Kohut]

"Relax now, be nice and comfy, it's not a drill movement, it's a firing
position, oh yes, we've done
*this *before! Now traverse the gun, point it but never aim. Right!".
                       p. 147, The Looking Glass War, by John LeCarre, 1965

(1) Adjustment of the gun in traverse is normally made by pressure of the
right shoulder and arm on the shoulder traversing bar. In order to traverse
the gun by this method, the traversing release handle must be locked to the
rear so that the ...

I do not know if this resonance of 'traverse' , this phrase with travers,
has ever come up on the Plist. It is not on the wiki.

I vote for the meaning as a direct possible source of the family name.

Who knows but TRP how he learned of it, although we know he has read and
liked LeCarre. it is in earlier war manuals and other places, of course....
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