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Crossbar

Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.

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📖 Definitions of "Crossbar"

noun

1
Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.
2
The top of the goal structure.
3
The top tube of a bicycle frame.

verb

1
To mark with a pattern of transverse bars.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Crossbar"

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axlenoun	The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
barrnoun	An English and Scottish surname.
splinter barnoun	The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.
tiebarnoun	A flat bar used as a tie in construction work.
crosspiecenoun	A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.
crossarmnoun	The horizontal member of a cross-shaped object, such as the horizontal bar of power poles or telephone poles.
footbarnoun	A bar for supporting a person's foot, as in furniture or exercise machines.
t-barbnoun	spanner barb
spreader barnoun	(BDSM) A rod with cuffs or rope on both ends that is used to hold a person's arms or legs a fixed distance apart.
crossbeamnoun	A horizontal structural beam that runs perpendicular to the primary support beams; a girder.
barlingnoun	(UK dialectal) The smallest pig in a litter; runt.
anchornoun	(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
bridle ironnoun	(architecture) A strong flat bar of iron, bent so as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc. where no sufficient bearing can be had.
shacklenoun	(usually in the plural) A restraint fitted over a human or animal appendage, such as an ankle, finger, or wrist, normally used in a pair joined by a chain.
bracketnoun	A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
burglar barnoun	Any of a set of metal bars fitted over doors or windows to prevent breaking and entering.
barringverb	The exclusion of someone; blackballing.
bracenoun	A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
transomnoun	(architecture) A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.
bar shoenoun	A kind of horseshoe with a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect the frog of the foot.