crosspiece

Example Sentences

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If you noticed the yards, which are the crosspieces, the upper one of those has the topsail furled to it, and it is pretty much exactly like your childish imaginations.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2017

They clamped crosspieces to the pillars with oiled nuts and bolts.

From Time Magazine Archive

All day the Army engineers, interrupted by enemy fire, had labored to lay rubber pontoons, then wood crosspieces, finally steel tracks just wide enough for the 28-ton General Grants.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he cut strips from his jacket and tied the two crosspieces together at the ends so that they were pulled together and held the logs firmly in place.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

She drew aside the curtain and leaned her wrist on one of the crosspieces between panes, but, feeling grit, she removed it, rubbed it clean with her other hand, and stood up more erectly.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger