crosscheck

plural crosschecks · alternative cross check

1. A verification (of information, data, or calculations) by using an alternative source or method.
2. hobbiesAn illegal maneuver where a player strikes another with the shaft of his stick, or the penalty thereby incurred.
3. ball gamesA penalty where a player hits another player with the shaft of their lacrosse stick with their hands spread apart.

present singular third person crosschecks · participle present crosschecking · participle past crosschecked · past crosschecked · alternative cross-check · alternative cross check

1. To verify (information, data, or calculations) by using an alternative source or method.
2. hobbiesTo commit the infraction of checking an opponent by using the shaft of one's stick with both hands.
3. ball gamesTo hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick.

   He picked up a roughing penalty for crosschecking Montreal’s Andrei Kostitsyn to the ice Tuesday after Kostitsyn hit Boston defenseman Aaron Ward from behind.

   2009 January 16, Dave Caldwell, “Goalie Takes a Long Trip to Reach the N.H.L.”, in New York Times