crosspiece

Example Sentences

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I took another step, lowering my feet, with my right hand still on the deck’s crosspiece.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2018

As I lowered one foot to the next step, the wooden crosspiece broke, sending my body swinging wildly to the left.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2018

Some chimney pipes have a T-shape, with a crosspiece on top that helps draw up gases whenever there is even a slight breeze.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Our long swords were true-to-form in weight and balance with a wooden core and a metal crosspiece at the hilt.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2012

Zooey reflexively put his hand on a crosspiece between panes of glass, as if he had a mind to raise the window and lean out of it to watch the two disappear.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger