cross write

verb

To write across a page, and then turn the paper ninety degrees and overwrite, done in order to lessen the cost of sending a letter when postage costs were based on weight.

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Meanings

verbcross write (third-person singular simple present cross writes, present participle cross writing, simple past cross wrote, past participle cross written)

present singular third person cross writes · participle present cross writing · past cross wrote · participle past cross written · alternative cross-write

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo write across a page, and then turn the paper ninety degrees and overwrite, done in order to lessen the cost of sending a letter when postage costs were based on weight.
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