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crossarm

noun

Etymology

From cross + arm.

  1. inherited from *h₂r̥mós✻
  2. inherited from *armaz✻
  3. inherited from *arm✻
  4. inherited from earm
  5. inherited from arm
  6. formed as crossarm — “cross + arm”

Definitions

  1. The horizontal member of a cross-shaped object, such as the horizontal bar of power poles…

    The horizontal member of a cross-shaped object, such as the horizontal bar of power poles or telephone poles.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crossarm. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA