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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cross-hatching
noun
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▪ Killion jumped over a barracks through a cross-hatching of furious ground fire, and fled to the west.
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cross-hatching

n. (alternative spelling of crosshatching English) vb. (present participle of cross-hatch English)

Usage examples of "cross-hatching".

Beneath the left eye, black tattooed cross-hatching marked the cheekbone where the dataflow filaments would go in.

He saw angular suns and moons, and writing that looked like bus route maps, all long lines with cross-hatchings at different angles, and at one place a crude picture of fish attacking the underbelly of a stag.

Fern, huckleberry, bearberry, service berry, the shoulder-high broad-leafed thimbleberry, and a plethora of plants Anna couldn't put a name to, tangled in the cross-hatching of rotting timber.