Word Meanings - BRIDGEHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont.

• Crossjack
  The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
• Crossrow
  The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.
• Crosswort
  A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
• Prevention
  The act of going, or state of being, before.
• Commandant
  A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.
• CROSSSTONE
  See Harmotome, and Staurotide.
• Crossbarred
  Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
• Cross-days
  The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
• Crossette
  A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.
• CRosslegged
  Having the legs crossed.
• Crossruff
  The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
• Preventional
  Tending to prevent.
• CROSSEXAMINATION
  The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.
• Commandatory
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• CROSSTAIL
  A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
• Crossbeak
  Same as Crossbill.
• Cross-examination
  The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.
• Crosslet
  A small cross.

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