Travers

See also: travers

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector.

In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.

Proper noun

Travers

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
2. A place name:
   1. A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.
   2. An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.
   3. A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.

Related terms

• Travis

References

• Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press 1988.

Anagrams

• starver