Definitions for crossbeam

crossbeam cross·beam

Spelling: [kraws-beem, kros-]
IPA: /ˈkrɔsˌbim, ˈkrɒs-/

Crossbeam is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 605 anagrams from letters in crossbeam (abcemorss).

Definitions for crossbeam

noun

  1. a transverse beam in a structure, as a joist.

Origin of crossbeam

First recorded in 1585-95; cross- + beam

Examples for crossbeam

Fortunately our compass had been fastened with long screws to a crossbeam.

Those are the actual helmet, shield, and saddle which he used in the battle upon the crossbeam yonder.

Your heart hangs by a string from a crossbeam in the castle.

If the two horizontal arms were not sufficiently adapted to the figure, they fastened a crossbeam to it.

Solomon, the big rooster, was perched on a crossbeam, head tucked under his wing.

He did not pass under the crossbeam of the gate, but flew over it like a bird.

Above it was a crossbeam and then a gap of several inches between the top of the gate and the arch into which it was built.

The window opposite was still open; the end of a rope floated from the crossbeam.

He swung the rope over the crossbeam and paid it out until the end was clutched by the uplifted hands of those below.

Many of these had been demolished, or broken at the crossbeam.

Word Value for crossbeam
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