Usually means: Supports piston rod, guides motion.
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  1. crosshead: Merriam-Webster
  2. crosshead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crosshead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crosshead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crosshead: Vocabulary.com
  6. crosshead: Wordnik
  7. crosshead: Wiktionary
  8. crosshead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. crosshead: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Crosshead, crosshead: Dictionary.com
  11. Crosshead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Crosshead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. crosshead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. crosshead: Rhymezone
  15. Crosshead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. crosshead: FreeDictionary.org
  17. crosshead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. crosshead: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. crosshead: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (crosshead)

noun:  (mechanical engineering) A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine.
noun:  (journalism) Large text, like a headline but typically drawn from the article, placed partway through the article to break it up visually.
noun:  A screw with a cross-shaped indentation for gripping and turning, as opposed to a flathead.
noun:  (musical notation) A note with an x-shaped notehead, indicating a non-tonal sound such as a drumbeat or a rapped syllable.

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