0 past simple and past participle of cross
2 to put one of your arms, fingers, or legs over the top of the other:
4 If you cross a plant or animal with another of a different type, you cause them to breed together in order to produce a new variety (= type of plant or animal).
5 in some sports, to hit, kick, or throw the ball across the playing area to another player, not forwards or backwards:
6 to draw two lines across the middle of a cheque to show that it needs to be paid into a bank account:
a crossed cheque
We had to cross a large area of arid, featureless desert.
Leave the main road and cross the bridge, and keep going until you see a gate on the left-hand side.
Finally, a modification of the last family provides examples of crossed product factors that are not full but for which central sequences are under control.
In this pedigree only 7 dams were crossed with more than 1 sire while 6 sires were mated with more than one dam.
However, the great length of the outer enclosures and the many causeways that crossed them surely precluded their use for defence against determined enemies.
