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单词 cross-tie
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cross-tien.

Etymology: cross- comb. form 1b(a).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcross-tie.
A transverse connecting piece (of timber, etc.); spec. in U.S. = tie n. 7b.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > [noun] > anything lying transversely > cross-piece, -bar, or -beam
slote1485
crossbar1562
bail1575
cross-beam1594
traverse1604
bint1629
cross-yard1634
crown beam1776
cross-tie1813
cross-rail1836
stretcher1844
spall1895
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails > sleeper
cross-tie1813
sleeper1837
longitudinal1838
transom1838
cross-sleeper1841
railroad tie1847
stringer1848
tie1857
pot sleeper1869
waybeam1880
1813 Niles' Reg. III. 323/1 The three large ribs are preserved in their proper relative situations by fifty-four crossties.
1833 in J. R. Commons et al. Documentary Hist. Amer. Industrial Soc. (1910) I. 219 Begun laying cross-ties of plantation railroad.
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 158 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI The arrangement of cross ties and stays in the interior part of the hub.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Cross-tie, a railway sleeper; a connecting band in building.
1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 129 These cross-ties are formed with a curve in their centre part to clear the lower portion of the breech of the gun.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 244/1 The longitudinals are connected and kept to gauge by transoms or cross-ties at intervals.
1890 Harper's Mag. May 888/1 Across this ditch two old ‘cross~ties’ made a bridge to the railway.
1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ ii. 22 Did you ever try to shove five hundred foot coils over a mile of crossties?
1908 Daily Chron. 14 Nov. 8/6 A few variations in frame design..taking the form of auxiliary cross-ties and supplementary diagonals.
1948 Clarke County (Alabama) Democrat 23 Sept. 1/2 Cross ties and switch ties.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

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cross-tie
(i) across, or cross-wise, or in a direction or way traversing another, as cross-bond, cross-carve, cross-fetter, cross-pile, cross-swim, cross-tie; cross-cut n., cross-plough v., etc.
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1613 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Treasurie Auncient & Moderne Times 75/1 Although the Seas were very..tempestuous, yet he would Crosse-swim them, without any feare.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Battail of Yvry in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1098 And fiery-fierce, and stout, A hundred waies cross-carves the Field about.
1645 J. Bond Occasus Occidentalis 35 Hee doth fetter, and..crosse-fetter him.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. viii. 25 He tied and cross-tied them all fast together.
1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 429 These [stones] were to be carefully set by hand, with the broadest ends downwards, all crossbonded or jointed.
1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 25 Dec. 446 The amount of lumber now cross-piled on the several mill docks.
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