crosspiece
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈkrɔsˌpis/
:
travesaño
- The workers installed a wooden crosspiece to provide additional support for the roof.
- attaches crosspieces
- bottom crosspiece
- top crosspiece
Examples
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Its crosspieces are attached with vines, and as the climber ascends, the bottom, then the middle and top of the ladder are secured to the tree with vines.
Academic text (1993) -
This crosspiece separated the flowers of the flowerbed from the wild grass.
Fiction book (2001) -
And it had some crosspieces on it to kind of make it like a little bit of a ladder.
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Oliver's place was at one of the crosspieces.
Fiction book (1995) -
By tying crosspieces to the branches, a sort of basket is made to serve as a frame.
Academic text (1993) -
It had a simple crosspiece for a hand guard, set with flashing jewels.
Fiction book (1991) -
It wasn't cool at all, so Bowdoin took off his jacket, rolled it up, and put it between Janice's shoulders and the steel crosspiece.
Fiction book (1991) -
The short girders were crosspieces; the long rods with the turnbuckles were diagonal braces.
Fiction book (1992) -
At one point in the narrative, a tall foreigner gives Wang Lung a tract with a drawing of a white-skinned man hanging on a crosspiece of wood.
Academic text (2003) -
I did so with its own ladder and some crosspieces from shelves, that defense restoring some peace of mind—not because it would save me, but from the beneficial effect of activity.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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4.4
A horizontal beam that supports parts of a building, like a roof
A horizontal beam that goes across a structure, often above a door
A long horizontal beam that holds up a roof or floor over an opening
A heavy wooden or concrete beam that lies across railroad tracks to hold the rails in place
A horizontal beam attached across a ship's mast that supports the ropes holding the sails and gives sailors a platform
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Morphology
Etymology
Crosspiece comes from the simple parts cross (meaning 'across') and piece. It names a bar or small part that runs across something to join or support the parts, like the bar between the legs of a ladder.