crossbar

Meanings

Noun

  • Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.
  • The top of the goal structure.
  • The top tube of a bicycle frame.

Verb

  • To mark with a pattern of transverse bars.

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Origin

  • From Middle English crose bar, equivalent to cross- + bar.

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