Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crossbar"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crossbar \Cross"bar`\ (-b[aum]r`), 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. --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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
crossbar
n 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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