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Definition of Crossbar
1. Noun. A horizontal bar that goes across something.
2. Noun. Game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over.
3. Noun. Long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts.
Definition of Crossbar
1. 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.
Definition of Crossbar
1. Noun. (sports) The top of the goal structure. ¹
2. Noun. The top tube of a bicycle frame. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crossbar
1. to fasten with crossarms [v -BARRED, -BARRING, -BARS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crossbar
Literary usage of Crossbar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Athenian Grain-tax Law of 374/3 B.C. by Ronald S. Stroud (1998)
"Line 34: The crossbar of the alpha in the eleventh space was omitted by the cutter.
Line 35: Of the twenty-seventh letter I can see only a diagonal stroke ..."
2. The First Three Books of Homer's Iliad: With Introduction, Commentary, and by Homer (1903)
"The Homeric loom was upright, not horizontal, and consisted of two perpendicular
posts, united at the top by a crossbar. From this crossbar the threads of ..."
3. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1868)
"And flu- back-crossbar as strong as the fora, And spring and axle and bub encore.
And yet, ax a whole, it u past a doubt In another hour it will be worn out ..."
4. The Treatment of fractures by William Lawrence Estes (1900)
"After the dressing is dry the limb may be elevated for about one week, by means
of the crossbar over the bed, and suspension, as indicated in Fig. 38. ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1906)
"A "hickey" consists of two iron strips fastened to the pole extending above its
end, supporting a crossbar. On this crossbar there were two electric light ..."
6. The Gryphon Taint: Volume One by K. M. Frontain (2006)
"He set his load aside only momentarily to move the crossbar and shove the door wide.
Then he was out with his ill-gotten gains and heading for home. ..."
7. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"These screws pass through and support a crossbar, which is moved upwards by means
of two nuts situated below it, and moved downwards or retained in position ..."
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