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A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.
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A line drawn across or through another line.
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Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
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Athwart; across.
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To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
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To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
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To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.
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To lie or be athwart.
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A move executed in a canoe or kayak across a fast jet of water.
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The free foot will step across in front or behind the opposite foot.
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A forward or backward step in which one foot is drawn in front of or behind the other foot.
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a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
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travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
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trace a line through or across; "cross your `t'"
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extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis; "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon"
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To go straight across. To cross a divided highway is to cross both halves of it.
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A cross is a flag featuring a centrally-placed cross whose arms extend across the entire flag, like that of England, above.
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A pass played across the face of a goal.
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Go completely across the specified road.
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Crossing one foot over the other (in front) (also see Hook and Lock)
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