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Crossbeam   Listen
noun
Crossbeam  n.  
1.
(Arch.) A girder.
2.
(Naut.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.





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"Crossbeam" Quotes from Famous Books



... the crossbeam supporting the mainmast was split from end to end, and only the roof structure held it in place. Thus the trip had a warning lesson for them, and Harry was not slow to take advantage of it and ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay
... the swirl of water, Leroy had been carried up against the deck of the lighter. Instinctively he had clutched at a crossbeam. The water raced over his head, and then, to his surprise, receded, beat up once or twice as the lighter grounded, and finally settled on a level with ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini
... each other," jeer the savage Wangoni, as these are driven forth. "Whau! Ye shall keep each other in meat on the way. Ha, ha! For in truth ye are as fat oxen to each other," pointing with their broad spears to the gruesome trees and crossbeam—the scene of the hideous cannibal slaughter. For the Wangoni, by virtue of their Zulu origin, hold cannibalism in the ...
— The Sign of the Spider • Bertram Mitford
... that the crossbeam supporting the mainmast was split from end to end, and only the roof structure held it in place. Thus the trip had a warning lesson for them, and Harry was not slow to take advantage of it and install a ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay
... brave-ardor); and a companion who also lived with us resolved to put his courage to the test. Accordingly, at dusk one evening, when Jack was about to lead the horse to the pasture, he provided himself with a sheet, and placed himself on one end of the crossbeam which rested on the rather high posts of the gate. Jack came whistling along, leading the horse, and, opening the gate, slipping off the halter, gave the animal a slap with it; and as he shut the gate cocked up his eye at the elevated figure. "And as for you, Mr. Devil," says ...
— Old New England Traits • Anonymous


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