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English Dictionary: cross-bar by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Crossbar \Cross"bar`\ (-b[aum]r`), n.
      A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the
      iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor
      to insure its turning fluke down. --Russell.
  
      {Crossbar shot}, a projectile which folds into a sphere for
            loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a
            quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval
            actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.
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