Thesaurus: crossbar
A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
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- n. A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
- n. a horizontal bar that goes across something
- n. game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over
- n. long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts
- A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.
- A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as theiron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor toinsure its turning fluke down. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectilewhich folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expandsto a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used innaval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.
- n:100 n. a horizontal bar that goes across something n. game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over n. long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts