transambulate

present singular third person transambulates · participle present transambulating · participle past transambulated · past transambulated

1. raretransitiveTo walk through or across; to step over, especially to transit a threshold between one area and another.

   It is a nice point of disputation whether you did with tortoiselike slowness transambulate that lobby, so as in five hours to proceed but twenty paces […]

   2016, E. R. Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses

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   This can have the effect of markedly reducing the flicker of the image for a given basic picture speed; that is to say, if a complete traversal of the scene is carried out in k partial scans or frames, each of which substantially transambulates the image-field […]

   1937, John Charles Wilson, Television engineering, page 100

   As with all subjects, try to read and research as widely as possible, so you don't become like an explorer who believes he understands a whole country because he has traveled down a river or transambulated a province.

   2014, Bernard Ewell, Artful Dodgers, page 166