Associations to the word «Crossbeam»

Wiktionary

CROSSBEAM, noun. A horizontal structural beam that runs perpendicular to the primary support beams; a girder.
CROSSBEAM, noun. (nautical) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.

Dictionary definition

CROSSBEAM, noun. A horizontal beam that extends across something.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne