Traversed

verb

1. To travel across, often under difficult conditions.

   "He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side."

2. To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

   "to traverse all nodes in a network"

3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
4. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

   "to traverse a cannon"

5. , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).