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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



... seem half so bad, I reached the crate, changed from the horizontal to the perpendicular opening, kept close to the top with my head and shoulders, and let my legs go down till I could rest them on the crossbar of the crate, made my way to the end round the corner, and reached the place where Barney was anxiously waiting, and then paused for a few moments to rest, ready to wonder at the ease with which I had returned. I said something of the kind ...
— Sail Ho! - A Boy at Sea • George Manville Fenn

... type is the cedar bark mat woven of flat strips in horizontal and vertical lines. In beginning wide strips of the inner bark are hung from their centre over a crossbar of wood which is supported at either end by an upright beam. The halves of the strips hanging in front are then split into strands of the desired width and a line of fine twining woven across to hold them securely. The checker weaving of the mat is now begun at the left edge by doubling ...
— Aboriginal American Weaving • Mary Lois Kissell

... Singletree Crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces of a harness are fastened for pulling a cart, carriage, ...
— The Veterinarian • Chas. J. Korinek



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



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