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crossbarred

crossbarred adjective: secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.

Adjective

crossbarred (not comparable)

  1. Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
    • doors, crossbarred and fast bolted1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
    • Deputy Jim Cook had removed Jerry Macon from the main corridor to the bull pen, a huge cage with steel floors, welded with crossbarred gratings through which even a boy could not squeeze.1929 January, Raymond S. Spears, “Proofs Positive”, in Everybody's Magazine
  2. Made or patterned in lines crossing each other.
    • crossbarred muslin
    • Or for midsummer the always attractive dotted and crossbarred swiss, muslin and organdie make the most bewitching affairs1922, Isabel De Nyse Conover, A Complete Course in Dressmaking, How to make aprons and house dresses

Origin of crossbarred

From crossbar + -ed.

Questions about crossbarred

What does crossbarred mean?
Crossbarred means secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
What part of speech is crossbarred?
Crossbarred is an adjective.

Words near crossbarred in the dictionary

  1. crossbar
  2. crossbar hotel
  3. crossbar hotels
  4. crossbar switch
  5. crossbar switches
  6. crossbarred
  7. crossbarring
  8. crossbars
  9. crossbeak
  10. crossbeaks
  11. crossbeam

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