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Crossbar

noun
1.
A horizontal bar that goes across something.
2.
Game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over.
3.
Long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts.





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"Crossbar" Quotes from Famous Books



... or raising the hair" of the wanderer. The hills gradually receded, till at last we entered a plain where tall grass was waving, and mighty chestnut trees, in full blossom, spread out their giant and umbrageous boughs. Beneath many stood cars, the tired oxen prostrate on the ground, the crossbar of the poll which they support pressing heavily on their heads, whilst their drivers were either employed in cooking, or were enjoying a delicious siesta in the grass and shade. I went up to one ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... initials H. E. (Henry VII and Elizabeth of York) and H. K. for Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon as Prince and Princess of Wales. These badges run all round the side windows. In each side window there are four subjects, two side lights above and two below the transom or crossbar, while in the centre light are four figures, men and angels alternately, "Messengers," as they are called, because they hold scrolls or tablets (in Latin) descriptive of the pictures at the sides. All the side windows, ...
— A Short Account of King's College Chapel • Walter Poole Littlechild
... will wonder what human agency could penetrate these locks, open the doors of this hiding place, extract the plunder, restore the locks to their original condition, and re-issue into the passageway without disturbing the latches or the crossbar. My losses are supernatural. Now follow me carefully and confess that you have not heard anything so ghastly, so unreal as what I ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder
... receive therein the pivot pin of the swinging magnet. In order to hold the pivot pin in place, cut out an H-shaped piece of sheet brass (I), which, when laid on the bridge, has its ends bent around the latter, as shown at J, and the crossbar of the H-shaped piece then will prevent the pivot pin from coming out of the ...
— Electricity for Boys • J. S. Zerbe


Words linked to "Crossbar" :   whiffletree, doubletree, crosspiece, whippletree, game equipment, swingletree, bar, goalpost


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