(n.) A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
(n.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.
Example Sentences:
(1) He then fell with the 100 pound crosspiece on his back and was unable to break the fall because his outstretched hands were tied to the crosspiece.
(2) During locomotion on a flat surface and walking on crosspieces of a horizontal ladder the activity of 56 motor cortex neurons in the cat (5 identified cortico-spinal and 6 cortico-rubral neurons among them) was modulated in the rhythm of steps, i.e.
(3) The cell wall was found to be 20--25 nm thick and to consist of a rigid layer bound to the cytoplasmic membrane with crosspieces.
(4) A second suture can be attached to the proximal limb of the crosspiece to extract it end-on at a latter date without enlarging the tract.
(5) The ocular asymmetry measuring device comprises a headband, a ruler, and a T-shaped crosspiece.
(6) Because the crosspiece and the stem are held together with sutures, they can be aligned over a catheter and guide wire for atraumatic insertion into the bile duct.
Transom
Definition:
(n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.
(n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.
(n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
(n.) The vane of a cross-staff.
(n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lastly, editors do not, for the most part, sit at their desks waiting for random submissions to come across the transom.
(2) There’s stuff that is really ‘top secret’ top secret, and there’s stuff going out to the president or secretary of state, stuff you don’t want on the transom, or going out over the wires” that is basically “open-sourced” material.
(3) Sun-loungers are set out on the teak transom, towels rolled in tight cylinders.
(4) There’s stuff that is really top secret top secret, and there’s stuff that is being presented to the president or the secretary of state, that you might not want on the transom, or going out over the wire, but is basically stuff that you could get in open source.” “Over-classification run amok” was how Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon described the situation in January when it first emerged that 22 of the emails on the server that were due to be released as part of efforts to show it was harmless had been deemed “top secret” on further review.