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crosshair

noun

Etymology

From cross + hair.

  1. inherited from here
  2. derived from *kes-✻ — “to scrape, comb”
  3. inherited from *hērą✻ — “hair”
  4. inherited from *hār✻
  5. inherited from hǣr
  6. inherited from her
  7. compounded as crosshair — “cross + hair”

Definitions

  1. Reticle.

    • I'm just a crosshair / I'm just a shot away from you

  2. To focus on within a reticle.

    • Watching hopefully for a buck to come along behind the does, I eyed them through the scope of the borrowed .243. From time to time, I crosshaired the vital areas .
    • The next moment it was crosshaired by the electronic sights .
    • That's when Dad noticed one of P. V.'s deputies standing behind a truck about a hundred feet away, crosshairing a rifle straight at him.

  3. To target.

    • My kinfolks had crosshaired in on the truth of the world.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crosshair. 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