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Crosspiece   /krˈɔspˌis/   Listen
noun
Crosspiece  n.  
1.
A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
2.
(Naut.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Crosspiece" Quotes from Famous Books



... fireplace, with a massive, over-hanging oak mantelpiece. Beside the fireplace was a heavy oaken chair with arms and cross-bars at the bottom. In and out through the open woodwork was woven a crimson cord, which was secured at each side to the crosspiece below. In releasing the lady the cord had been slipped off her, but the knots with which it had been secured still remained. These details only struck our attention afterwards, for our thoughts were entirely absorbed by the terrible object which lay upon the tiger-skin hearthrug ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle

... dismounted and followed Swan into a small shed beside the stable, where a worn stock saddle hung suspended from a crosspiece, a rawhide string looped over the horn. Lone did not ask whose saddle it was, nor did Swan name the owner. ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower



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