Term: traverse
Definition: to canoe across open water: "sailing Zigzag, or from side to side as a drunken Man reels, when the Wind is contrary, for then they are oblig'd to tack sometimes to the right, and sometimes to the left, keeping as near to the Wind as they can" - Lahontan
[Source: Lahontan, Louis. New voyages to North-America... (London, 1703) at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/).]
