Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cross-piece; an arm or bracket which crosses a pole or post: used on poles to carry wires and keep them separated.
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Examples
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One at their van bore the standard, a pole from whose cross-arm hung-tails of oxen?
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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One at their van bore the standard, a pole from whose cross-arm hung'tails of oxen?
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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In addition, some 500 insulators, H.T. fuses, lightning arrestors, earthing sets and a metal cross-arm and top-cap for each pole, are required.
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Moonglum spat on the steps as they descended into the square and then he looked up and drew his two swords in a cross-arm motion.
The Vanishing Tower Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1970
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It was T-shaped, with the left branch of the cross-arm rising in the tower he had noticed before.
Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1953
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After many efforts, in which I succeeded in tearing nearly all the clothes off of me, I finally reached the lowest cross-arm, and seated myself on it with my legs wrapped around the pole.
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As the cut had been made close to the glass insulator on the cross-arm, only one of the two ends hung to the ground, and he saw that he could not splice them.
The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs
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[Illustration: "After many efforts I finally reached the lowest cross-arm."]
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"After many efforts I finally reached the lowest cross-arm" 30
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From the other side, radioactive isotopes, mostly reactor-waste, came in through evacuated and collapsium-shielded chambers, were sorted, and finally, where the cross-arm of the T joined the downstroke, packed in the collapsium cases.
The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934
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