Crosswise Definition

Crosswise Sentence Examples

• Crocodiles are caught in various ways, - for instance, with two pointed sticks, which are fastened crosswise within the bait, an animal's entrails, to which is attached a rope.

• The planks were of wood, often beech, a few inches wide, and were fastened down, end to end, on logs of wood, or " sleepers," placed crosswise at intervals of two or three feet.

• The crosswise courses of the greater rivers result from the rivers being older than the mountains, which indeed have been produced by circumdenudation.

• Among those Desmidiaceae which live a free life, two plants become surrounded by a common mucilage, in which they lie either parallel (Closterium) or crosswise (Cosmarium).

• Central design of four stamped palmettes set crosswise in an impressed frame.