crossbarred

English

Etymology

From crossbar +‎ -ed.

Adjective

crossbarred (not comparable)

1. Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     doors, crossbarred and fast bolted

   • 1929 January, Raymond S. Spears, “Proofs Positive”, in Everybody's Magazine:

     Deputy Jim Cook had removed Jerry Macon from the main corridor to the bull pen, a huge cage with steel floors, welded with crossbarred gratings through which even a boy could not squeeze.

2. Made or patterned in lines crossing each other.

   crossbarred muslin

   • 1922, Isabel De Nyse Conover, A Complete Course in Dressmaking, How to make aprons and house dresses:

     Or for midsummer the always attractive dotted and crossbarred swiss, muslin and organdie make the most bewitching affairs

References

• “crossbarred”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.