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1760 Patrington Haven Act 13 Pass through the said turnpikes or cross gates.

1827 J. Farey Treat. Steam Engine 678 On the upper end of the piston rod..a horizontal cross-rod..is fixed.

1829 R. Southey Pilgrim to Compostella iii, in All for Love 171 Perch'd on a cross-pole hoisted high.

1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 317 A variety of cross-braces above the tie-beams.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 38 Set as stays and cross-bands.

1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 409 The cross-straps pinch the little toe of my wife's foot.

1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 20 Strengthening the old ships with cross-timbers.

1884 F. F. Miller Harriet Martineau 148 She set up a cross-pole fence around her estate.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Cross-arm.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cross bracing.

1925 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 4 524 Individual wires mounted on separate insulators attached to cross-arms on poles.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 204/1 Counter-bracing, the provision of two diagonal tie-rods in the panels of a frame girder or other structure. Also called cross-bracing.

1964 Listener 11 June 950/1 Each pier of each ring is led back to the others by brick cross-bracing, making up as it were the spokes of a set of colossal wheels.