Meanings
adjectiverecrossed (not comparable)
- not comparableCrossed a second time.
- not comparablegovernmentHaving the ends crossed, like (or as) a cross crosslet.
M'Glashan, Sco. a long cross recrossed, gules,[…]
1817, Alexander Deuchar, British Crests: Containing the Crests and Mottos of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, page 1892 more examples
gules, a bend argent acc. by six crosses recrossed argent
1900, John William De Forest, The DeForests of Avesnes and of New Netherland: A Huguenot Thread in American Colonial History, 1494 to the Present Time, page 245The arms of Poix, assumed by Sir Walter Tyrrell III., at the siege of Jerusalem, were as follows: Gules, with bend argent, together with six crosses, recrossed with small crosslets and pointed in gold, posed three and three.
1909, Edwin Holland Terrell, Further Genealogical Notes on the Tyrrell-Terrell Family of Virginia and Its English and Norman-French Progenitors, page 21
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of recross
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