Usually means: Horizontal bar connecting two sides.
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  1. crosspiece: Merriam-Webster
  2. crosspiece: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crosspiece: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crosspiece: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crosspiece: Vocabulary.com
  6. crosspiece: Wordnik
  7. crosspiece: Wiktionary
  8. crosspiece: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. crosspiece: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. crosspiece: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Crosspiece, crosspiece: Dictionary.com
  12. Crosspiece: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. crosspiece: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. crosspiece: Rhymezone
  15. Crosspiece: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. crosspiece: FreeDictionary.org
  17. crosspiece: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. crosspiece: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. crosspiece: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. crosspiece: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (crosspiece)

noun:  A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.
noun:  (nautical) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts; a timber over the windlass, with pins for belaying the running rigging.

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