Meanings
- not comparableSecured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
doors, crossbarred and fast bolted
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC1 more example
Deputy Jim Cook had removed Jerry Macon from the main corridor to the bull pen, a huge cage with steel floors, welded with crossbarred gratings through which even a boy could not squeeze.
1929 January 28, Raymond S. Spears, “Proofs Positive”, in Everybody's Magazine - not comparableMade or patterned in lines crossing each other.
crossbarred muslin
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Or for midsummer the always attractive dotted and crossbarred swiss, muslin and organdie make the most bewitching affairs
1922, Isabel De Nyse Conover, A Complete Course in Dressmaking, How to make aprons and house dresses
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