Word Meanings - CROSSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• Cross-tail
  A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
• CROSSSTITCH
  A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.
• Cross-eyed
  Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
• Cross-pawl
  Same as Cross-spale.
• Cross-tie
  A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
• CROSSSTONE
  See Harmotome, and Staurotide.
• Crossbower
  A crossbowman.
• Crossfish
  A starfish.
• Crosspiece
  A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
• Cross-tining
  A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
• CROSSEXAMINATION
  The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.
• CROSSTAIL
  A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
• Crossbowman
  One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
• Crossflow
  To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
• Cross-purpose
  A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
• Crosstrees
  Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."

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