Crossbar

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  • noun. A horizontal bar, line, or stripe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A transverse bar; a bar laid or fixed across another; in an anchor, a round bar of iron, straight or bent at one or both ends, inserted in the shank.
  • noun. A small bar in the mechanism of a break-joint breech-loading firearm, which presses out the extractor when the barrels are falling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
  • noun. a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The top of the goal structure.
  • noun. The top tube of a bicycle frame.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a horizontal bar that goes across something
  • noun. long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts
  • noun. game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over
  • Word Usage
    "Shane Doan almost gave Phoenix the lead with 17: 04 to play, bouncing a shot off the crossbar from the top of the right faceoff circle."
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