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Christcross :: Christcross (n.) The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial..

Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls..

Overthwartly :: Overthwartly (adv.) In an overthwart manner; across; also, perversely..

Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1..

Holy Cross :: Holy cross () The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion.

Snarl :: Snarl (v. i.) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms..

Travers :: Travers (a.) Across; athwart.

Cross-crosslet :: Cross-crosslet (n.) A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses..

Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.

Ballista :: Ballista (n.) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles..

Flux :: Flux (n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it..

Cross :: Cross (prep.) Athwart; across.

Trefle :: Trefle (a.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing..

Di- :: Di- () A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc..

Labarum :: Labarum (n.) The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard..

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Cross-armed :: Cross-armed (a.) With arms crossed.

Tree :: Tree (n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like..

Warp :: Warp (v.) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof..

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