Crossword clues for crossbeam
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crossbeam \Cross"beam`\ (-b[=e]m`). n.
(Arch.) A girder.
(Naut.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A horizontal structural beam that runs perpendicular to the primary support beams; a girder. 2 (label en nautical) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
WordNet
n. a horizontal beam that extends across something [syn: trave, traverse, crosspiece]
Usage examples of "crossbeam".
There was no proper gate with crossbeam or hinges, just a section with two strands of barbed wire stretched to a stick hung by plain wire to a post, so stick and section could simply be unhung and dragged out of the way.
They spiked his wrists to the ends of the crossbeam and hoisted him up to face the south, the sun, and the imperial box.
The vertigo did not entirely pass, but Rya came out onto the frame above me, waiting for me to move down and out of her way, and lightning flashed again to remind me of the danger of electrocution, so I drove myself off the spoke, to the crossbeam under it.
Spoke to crossbeam, crossbeam to spoke, spoke to crossbeam again, she descended, but my galloping heartbeat was not reigned in even when she was down far enough to eliminate the threat of a killing fall.
Another night-shattering fulmination sent a tongue of fire from sky to earth, and this one did, at last, lick the Ferris wheel, which lit up along every spoke and crossbeam, each cable a blazing filament, and for an instant it seemed that the huge machine was encrusted with jewels through which raced lambent reflections of flames.
Manawyddan set about fixing a stick for the crossbeam between two forks.
And as he drew the creature up to the crossbeam, there came a shout from the foot of the mound.
The beggar went on his way and Manawyddan set about fixing a stick for the crossbeam between two forks.
With a loud crash, the huge arm unloaded its stone, slamming hard against the crossbeam at the top of its arc.
I was blocked from further descent by one of the crossbeams that served as braces between the mammoth spokes.
The carved crossbeams above the gable were silhouetted against the deep sky.
She turned the pages of the sketchbook and looked at the inky drawings of crossbeams and braces or turrets and buttresses, and she saw the measurements and notes, none of which meant anything to her.
When Garcia severed it, he tripped the detonator, which in turn caused an electrical charge to be sent to nitroglycerin charges concealed within the crossbeams of the suspension spans.
But the sides were open slats and crossbeams, so the guards could watch the captives.
A healthy man could easily climb over the ten-foot fence, but by the time he reached the top and crawled through the space between the fence and the crossbeams supporting the roof three feet above, guards would be waiting for him.