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Definition of Cross-town
1. Adjective. Going or extending across a town or city. "Crosstown traffic"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross-town
Literary usage of Cross-town
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Subways and Tunnels of New York, Methods and Costs: With an Appendix on by Gilbert Haskell Gilbert, Lucius Irving Wightman, William Lawrence Saunders (1912)
"These cross-town tunnels are located under Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets,
from the Terminal Station to Second Avenue. Curving thence to the left, ..."
2. Street Railways: Their Construction, Operation and Maintenance. (Trams) A by Charles Bryant Fairchild (1892)
"The XYZ Cross Town & Broomfield Railway Co. may lay and maintain their single
track street railway across the present track of the ABC Co. or any other ..."
3. Report on the Engineering and Operating Features of the Chicago by Bion Joseph Arnold (1905)
"The white ticket, issued by a cross-town conductor, upon the payment of cash fare
only, would be good either north or south on any intersecting line; ..."
4. The American-Hispano Pocket Guide of the Worlds Fair, 1893: Guia de Bolsillo (1893)
"All numbers on the south side of cross town streets are even. The student of this
city should at onee become well acquainted with the City Directory which ..."
5. Information Annual ...: A Continuous Cyclopedia and Digest of Current Events (1916)
"... which would relieve it of the immediate necessity of obeying the Health Board's
order regarding the service on the Eighty-sixth Street cross-town line. ..."
6. Contribution[s] by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering (1917)
"About 15 per cent. of the radial line data fell in the cross-town group below
this line, ... Although a cross-town line may be of considerable length, ..."
7. New York Tunnel Extension, the Pennsylvania Railroad: Description of the by American Society of Civil Engineers (1910)
"During the same period, this contractor disposed of the material excavated from
both the cross-town Tunnels, constructed by the United Engineering and ..."
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