noun. A beam that connects the piston rod to the connecting rod of a reciprocating engine.

noun. In printing, same as cross-heading.

noun. A person whose skull is marked with the crossed coronal and sagittal sutures; a skull so marked.

noun. In mechan., a beam or rod stretching across the top of something; specifically, the bar at the end of a piston-rod of a steam-engine, which slides on ways or guides fixed to the bed or frame of the engine, and connects the piston-rod with the connecting-rod, or with a sliding journal-box moving in the cross-head itself.

noun. A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.

noun. A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine

noun. metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth

noun. a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text

"As a supervisor at one local elevator-repair company and the founder, in 1973, of Century Elevator, another repair business, he says that his employees would find old crosshead plates while out on jobs."

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