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Example sentences for "crossbar"

Lexicographically close words:
crores; cros; crosier; crosiers; cross; crossbars; crossbeam; crossbeams; crossbones; crossbow
  1. The crossbar and blade are steel, with both edges sharp.

  2. This stiletto has a wood handle, steel crossbar and blade of steel with both edges sharp.

  3. The blade and ornamental crossbar is of steel, with both edges of the blade sharp.

  4. The blade and crossbar are in imitation steel.

  5. I want the portside battery loaded with crossbar forward, and langrel aft.

  6. Hawksworth had also stowed a supply of crossbar shot and deadly langrel--thin casings filled with iron fragments--for use against enemy rigging and sail at close quarters.

  7. The Indian sat on a crossbar in the stern, but we flat on the bottom with a splint or chip behind our backs to protect them from the crossbar, and one of us commonly paddled with the Indian.

  8. I made it a rule to carry my knapsack when I walked, and also to keep it tied to a crossbar when in the canoe, that it might be found with the canoe if we should upset.

  9. This shingle remained tied to the crossbar throughout the voyage, was always ready for the carries, and also served to protect the back of one passenger.

  10. Mounted slightly above and to one side of the crossbar was a magazine containing ten short arrows.

  11. Under the crossbar was a sliding stock for the right hand, shaped like the butt of a pistol and fitted with a trigger.

  12. He pulled it back the length of the crossbar and it brought the string with it, stretching it taut.

  13. Gunwale construction and thwart or crossbar fastenings, as shown in a sketch by Adney.

  14. The crossbar for the sheet was sometimes similarly fastened and fitted, with its ends projecting outboard of the gunwales.

  15. The bight was secured within reach of the steersman by a half hitch to a crossbar fixed well aft across the gunwales.

  16. A crossbar in a coach, which supports the springs.

  17. A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

  18. A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it.

  19. The inner end of the lever is connected by a link to the crossbar of the griffe.

  20. This must be fixed exactly in the center of the crossbar so as to give a straight lift to the griffe.

  21. I peered at the crossbar in my hand, then looked hard at the girl beside me.

  22. There is a crossbar on this side to stand on," said Smith.

  23. One short guttural exclamation paid tribute to the accuracy of my aim; then I had the crossbar in my hand.

  24. Karamaneh twisted a length of it around a metal bracket fastened in the wall, and placed a light wooden crossbar in my hand.

  25. Defn: A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it.

  26. Mining) Defn: A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.

  27. A crossbar in a coach, which supports the springs.

  28. The goals are two upright posts 12 feet apart and with a crossbar 7 feet from the ground.

  29. There is also a similar pair of posts and a crossbar midway between the goals.

  30. If the ball goes between the goal-posts and above the crossbar it counts one point additional for the team making the touchdown, or six in all.

  31. The kettles and pots can be hung from the crossbar by means of pot hooks, which are pieces of wood or wire shaped like a letter "S.

  32. A washer support is soldered or otherwise fastened in the upper end of the stem, or at the base of the sloping part, and a crossbar is fastened to its upper surface across the hole.

  33. Before fastening the crossbar F in place, adjust the steering wheel to the proper height for the seat; then it is fastened with nails driven through the sides of the hood.

  34. A cord may be passed through the opening in the crossbar at the top and its lower end attached to the elements.

  35. The crossbar is centrally drilled to receive a small rod or wire, to which is attached a valve that will cover the hole in the washer.

  36. The bottom wires are braced to the crossbar K shown in the front elevation.

  37. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy brought a piece of crossbar with a tiny forget-me-not polka dot, and also had goods and embroidery for a suit of underwear.

  38. The material on my screen and "dresser" I bought for curtains, then decided to use some white crossbar I had.

  39. This was done by using several types of phone company relays, including crossbar executors and step switches which let you actually hear the power being transferred from one block to another by an other-worldly chunka-chunka-chunka sound.

  40. Underneath this layout was a more massive matrix of wires and relays,and crossbar switches than Peter Samson had ever dreamed existed.

  41. Each of these tubes is fitted with another which is open at its inner end, but closed at its outer end and provided with a small crossbar to rotate it.

  42. The quadrivalve speculum in the Naples Museum has each end of the crossbar tipped with a fine image of a ram's head.

  43. Now this is the closed part along the lower half of the right side of the letter, which would represent the crossbar of the letter.

  44. The mirror is really in two sections, the apparently innocent crossbar concealing the top of the lower one.

  45. Ropes pass from this windlass, over pulleys, to a crossbar in the upper part of the frame.

  46. In later times a cross with three crossbars has been used by artists as a symbol of the pope, with two crossbars of a patriarch, and with one crossbar of an archbishop; but Dr.

  47. They had two high poles erected with a crossbar on the top, and the contest was to see which side could produce the man who should throw the heaviest stone over that bar.

  48. When everything had been arranged their strongest man took up a heavy stone and, with a tremendous effort, succeeded in barely throwing it, so that it struck the crossbar and carried it down to the ground.

  49. When the crossbar had been replaced a son of the chief of the Elks went forward, as though he would be the competitor on the side of the Elks.

  50. The ordinary-looking stick leaning against the crossbar is an ordinary sort of stick, but a very useful one.

  51. On the crossbar our kettle was hung by a pot-hook--just a hooked stick with a good notch cut in it to take the handle of the kettle.

  52. The lower one can be rolled with your spare clothes inside it to form your pillow, while the upper one can be supported by a crossbar to form a little roof over your head.

  53. Also on the crossbar in the sketch you see our tongs.

  54. This crossbar is used for a handle to push or pull the truck.

  55. This crossbar may be an old broom handle.

  56. There are two standards in front which carry a wooden crossbar over the front end of the truck.

  57. When enough corn is cut for a shock it is tied with two bands, the crossbar is pulled out and the corn horse is dragged along to the next stand.

  58. The pole and the crossbar mark the four divisions of a corn shock.

  59. It had been taken from a Crossbar Double A cow.

  60. I tol' this client to lend his money to your dad when he needed it to buy them Crossbar Double A cows, because the security was good then.

  61. If them Crossbar Double A cows was supposed to have come from a ranch near here, every one of yuh boys would have spotted them blotted brands pronto," Jim Allen explained.

  62. The fastening of the door was usually accomplished either by bolts (pessuli), or by means of a crossbar (sera).

  63. Here the crossbar is used besides the ordinary fastening of the bolt, as an additional means of security.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crossbar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bar; crisscross; cross; intersect; transept; transom; transverse; traverse