What is "crosshatched"

Usage examples of "crosshatched".

His hands were brown and rough, crosshatched by tiny white scars, but steady and calm as they gently shifted the pole and line.

Overhead, the sky was crosshatched by the limbs of the trees, their dappled shadows cast earthward in a tangled net by the bright moonlight.

Michelangelo fitted together on the floor beside the desk the dozen large sheets with twenty male figures, some crosshatched with the pen, others outlined in charcoal or drawn with long bold slashing lines heightened with white lead, still others glowing with flesh colors.

The first rough sketches crosshatched, he gazed intently at his drawing.

The Bearded Giant, his back and buttocks crosshatched, leaned heavily against a base deep-scarred by the vicious pounding of the point.

We were in Schaumburg, or Bensenville, wherever this hotel was, and were walking down a quiet hall with purple and yellow crosshatched carpeting, and were not en route to Senegal and I hadn't -- I just realized -- packed shorts, and wouldn't get there until morning and had wasted the day.

All of these blank things, beautiful though, their crosshatched Spartans watching as I signed, the checks bearing the colors of the sea, a Mediterranean sea, where bathers lie on rocks -- everything so corruptible.

We were running at full speed, dodging the trees, our footsteps skatching loudly under us on the thick crosshatched forest floor.

Rough scribbles suggesting engines, red lines of force and striae of rock types crosshatched in ink.

They turned into lines that crosshatched the dark seemingly at random, making a net across the sky.

The grid's crosshatched shadows, which twisted and jumped each time I shifted my light, made my inspection difficult, but I saw that the vertical length of pipe went down about six feet, where the drain split into two opposing horizontal pipelines, each only slightly smaller than the vertical line that fed them.

Not much could be seen because the crosshatched ribs of the grate cast a confusion of shadows.

The man in knickers, hired probably because he resembled the archetypal Irish immigrant--craggy, handsome, thick reddish hair, square face crosshatched with weathered lines--was holding forth in disappointingly American tones.

Anna stepped away and feigned interest in the floor, a predictable washable tile, white crosshatched in gray.

Calmly, he began sorting through his clothing, hoping to feel the hard plane of his gun’s rectangular snout or the stubble of its crosshatched grip.