The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crossbarred \Cross"barred`\ (-b[aum]rd`), a.
Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
--Milton.Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars. 2 Made or patterned in lines crossing each other.
Usage examples of "crossbarred".
Two stout, locked, and crossbarred (from the other side, of course) doors are to the left and right.
At the beginning of this corridor, another hall jutted off to the rear and ended at a crossbarred wooden door as impressive as Laker Broome's.
At the beginning of this corridor, another hall jutted off to the rear and ended at a crossbarred wooden door as impressive as Laker Broome's.
Perhaps his feeble status is indicated most vividly in his laugh--or rather, in his inability to laugh: the sound he makes is painful, "like a nail being crossbarred out of a plank of green pine.
But above that the brick wall was windowless except for the single tall crossbarred rectangle and he thought again of the Sunday nights which seemed now to belong to a time as dead as Nineveh when from suppertime until the jailer turned the lights out and yelled up the stairs for them to shut up, the dark limber hands would lie in the grimed interstices while the mellow untroubled repentless voices would shout down to the women in the aprons of cooks or nurses and the girls in their flash cheap clothes from the mail order houses or the other young men who had not been caught yet or had been caught and freed yesterday, gathered along the street.
The object propped up against a crossbarred brace contrivance looked very similar, like a coffin following the body contours, only this one was molded from some transparent polymer.