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crossbar
1. a horizontal beam across a pair of goalposts
2. a horizontal bar mounted on vertical posts used in athletics or show-jumping
3. the horizontal bar on a man's bicycle that joins the handlebar and saddle supports

crossbar [′krȯs‚bär]
(civil engineering)
In a grating, one of the connecting bars which extend across bearing bars, usually perpendicular to them.


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The Wizard carried out a big kettle and set it swinging on a crossbar before the tent.
He pointed out to me that there were certain black lines which formed crossbars upon the series of brilliant colours extending from the red at one end through gradations of orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo to the violet at the other.
 
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