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iron cross

iron cross noun: a position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body. Also the alternative letter-case form of Iron Cross.

Noun (1)

iron cross (plural iron crosses)

  1. A position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body.
  2. (moguls freestyle skiing) an acrobatic maneuver where the skier remains upright, but the lower leg bends back at the knee 90 degrees, and the ankles twist 45 degrees, so that the back of the skis form a right-angle cross
  3. A defensive strategy in which the two defencemen, a forward and the goaltender align themselves in a diamond shape so that imaginary lines drawn through the two defencemen and through the forward and goaltender form the shape of a cross.
  4. A house plant, Oxalis tetraphylla.
    Synonyms:
    lucky clover, four-leaf sorrel, four-leaved pink-sorrel

Noun (2) capitalized: Iron Cross

Iron Cross (plural Iron Crosses)

  1. (formerly) the second highest military decoration of Germany, under the military order of the Pour le Mérite, or the cross pattée shape of this decoration.
    • Germans marked booby-trapped areas with black-and-white signs, bearing an Iron Cross symbol or a death's-head.2013, Gordon L. Rottman, World War II Allied Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 56

Also used as

iron cross is also the alternative letter-case form of Iron Cross.

Synonyms of iron cross

Forms of iron cross

pluraliron crosses
pluralIron Crosses

Words formed from iron cross

  • Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  • Grand Cross to the Iron Cross
  • Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
  • Star of the Grand Cross to the Iron Cross
  • Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross

Questions about iron cross

What does iron cross mean?
Iron cross means a position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body.
What part of speech is iron cross?
Iron cross is a noun.
What is the plural of iron cross?
The plural of iron cross is iron crosses.

Words near iron cross in the dictionary

  1. iron chinks
  2. iron clay
  3. iron condor
  4. iron condors
  5. Iron County
  6. iron cross
  7. iron crosses
  8. Iron Crown
  9. iron curtain
  10. iron curtains
  11. iron deficiency

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