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ˈcross-point, n.
[cross a. 2: see point.]
†1. Name of a step in dancing. Obs.
a1592Greene James IV, iv. iii, Nay but, my friends, one hornpipe further, a refluence back, and two doubles forward: what, not one cross-point against Sundays? 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. ii. vi. (Arb.) 32 Seeing him practise his lusty pointes, as his crospoynt backcaper.
2. One of the points of the compass intermediate between two cardinal points.
1709Tatler No. 42 When the Wind is in a cross Point. 1865F. Hall in Wilson Vishńu Puráńa II. 241 note, All the cardinal points, and so the cross-points.
3. pl. The points of a railway cross-over.
1896Westm. Gaz. 13 July 2/2 When the train has to pass over cross-points. |