crossbar
English
Etymology
From Middle English crose bar, equivalent to cross- + bar.
Pronunciation
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Noun
crossbar (plural crossbars)
- 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.
- (sports) The top of the goal structure.
- 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- The effervescent Suarez then went close again as he worked space for a shot after a mazy run but could not keep his close-range shot below the crossbar.
- The top tube of a bicycle frame.
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Translations
transverse piece
top of the goal structure
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top tube of a bicycle frame
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Verb
crossbar (third-person singular simple present crossbars, present participle crossbarring, simple past and past participle crossbarred)
- (transitive) To mark with a pattern of transverse bars.