crossflow

English

Etymology

From cross- +‎ flow.

Noun

crossflow (plural crossflows)

1. A crosswise flow.

Verb

crossflow (third-person singular simple present crossflows, present participle crossflowing, simple past and past participle crossflowed)

1. To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

     his cross-flowing course