trave

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English trave, from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam, thing made using beams”).

Trave: travis; a frame in which unruly horses were shod. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
It was, however, certain that a landing of the Russians was expected at Stralsund, or at Travemtinde, the port of Lübeck, at the mouth of the little river Trave. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

traverse, crossbeam, crosspiece

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