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Definition of Cross street
1. Noun. A street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross Street
Literary usage of Cross street
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"... or between a cross-street and an alley, which lie next to each other. The city
block is the unit of measurement in such case. [Ed. Note. ..."
2. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow (1890)
"From the west end of Fore Street lieth Red cross street ; from the which cross
on the right hand east lieth Beech Lane, and reacheth to the White Cross ..."
3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... 1661, to the following effect : ' The Fortune Playhouse, situate between White
cross street and Golding Lane, in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"to leave the track in time,1 though he is not, it seems, required to look behind
him.2 It is negligence to attempt to cross street-railway tracks in front ..."
5. Niles' Weekly Register edited by Hezekiah Niles, Jeremiah Hughes, George Beatty (1835)
"SO ai 3i!, cross street. 3. In 16th street and 7th avenge, «weeping a whole
block—destroying 3O bouse», and re- tiering 100 families homeless. ..."
6. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"London : Printed by William Jone», dwelling in Red-Cross-Street, l631. Duodecimo,
containing thirty-eight page». Consecrated and dedicated to the most high ..."
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