midcrossing

plural midcrossings

1. A time or place that is reached while midst crossing a physical space.

   A midcrossing rudder failure could only be mended in becalmed seas.

   2014 July 18, Eric Stiller, Keep Australia On Your Left: A True Story of an Attempt to Circumnavigate Australia by Kayak, Tor Publishing Group, page ??

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   I steeled myself for two more hours of holding concentration on keeping the boat upright, reading the compass at 135 degrees, and listening for the sound of breaking waves that could mean the opposite shore, a dangerous midcrossing shoal, or an island that signalled the proximity of the city of Marathon.

   1997, Ann Linnea, Deep Water Passage, Simon & Schuster, page 86

   American forces were ambushed in midcrossing at the river northwest of the town of Bocaue, Bulacan, taking 29 casualties in ten minutes.

   2024 October 27, Wikipedia contributors, “Campaigns of the Philippine–American War”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation