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Definition of Crisscrossing
1. crisscross [v] - See also: crisscross
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crisscrossing
Literary usage of Crisscrossing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"A further obvious corollary of irregularity of distribution of sensitivity in
the different meridians is the interlacing or crisscrossing of the limits when ..."
2. Power Development of Small Streams: A Book for All Persons Seeking Greater by Carl C. Harris, Samuel Orrick Rice (1920)
"The fourth course is then laid, crisscrossing the third course of poles. ...
The process of laying successive crisscrossing poles is continued until the ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"Far up in the northwest corner of the state the Harriman system is crisscrossing
the finest body of standing timl<er in the country with a network of rails, ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... all one jam packed solid, such a swarm of parasols of ev^ry color, every boat
scrunching into every other, and all the oars locking and crisscrossing, ..."
5. The Substance of Gothic: Six Lectures on the Development of Architecture by Ralph Adams Cram (1917)
"The angular and ugly crisscrossing of irrational ribs that had defaced the vaulting
of the latest Decorated and the earliest Perpendicular work, disappeared ..."
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