What is "crosspiece"

Usage examples of "crosspiece".

Crosspieces had been lashed to the ends of the long, hollow, arched carrying pole so that two pairs of bearers, front and rear, could run side by side.

Ducking underneath it, Dain looked up at the crosspieces that formed a ladder-work beneath the benches.

There apparently had been no recent crucifixions, for all the line of uprights sat without crosspieces, bare save for black crows perching atop three of them, with wistful hope.

It had rotted away from the screws that held it to the sidepieces near the bow and cracked right in two midway between that point of attachment and the first crosspiece, opening downward like a double trapdoor.

A steep ramp nailed with crosspieces for traction sloped to another house peak, met a walkway that angled along the roof, then bridged a narrow alley to intersect other walkways and staircases and tiny balconies and flat roofs.

Weathered old boards, horse-nibbled and greyed, clashed with the stout new crosspieces.

Only the jeweled dagger's hilt was visible, its crosspiece flat against the underside of the man's chin.

Then he looped a length of fishline around the crosspiece of the knife switch and pushed both ends back through the upper hole in the panel from the back.

Next to the only door was a full-length window, its stout bars made of lathed wood and its frame secured by an iron crosspiece.

The headquarters was a soaring megacomplex whose central tower cluster had been built to suggest the white gonfalons, or ensigns, of a holy crusade hanging from high crosspieces.

Using part of an old pike pole, I took another section for a crosspiece and lashed it in place with a bit of bowstring.

When the Storekeeper First helped Joe into his blouse, expertly buttoning the epaulet over the crosspiece of the Sam Browne belt, the reason why he was being so obliging came out.

Their foot-long hilts were bound with dark, stained leather, and from the size of the scabbards the blades had to be at least seven feet long, and six inches wide at the crosspiece.

One hundred feet of sheer pole climbing with occasional crosspieces to hang on to isn't much, and you begin to wonder, What if Dewey slips and falls into me?

In fact, other workers were at the same time lowering down into it planks for a second tier of shorings, the first having been firmly fixed in place by nailed crosspieces, small forged wrought-iron spikes joining the varying lengths of wood so precious on Rime Isle.