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Cross street

noun

A street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it.

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"Cross street" Quotes from Famous Books

... a cross street and turned westward this surmise was strengthened. They bumped over railroad tracks. Several ...

— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin

... ye come tae a cross street, and dinna gang doon it, and when ye see anither pass it, but whup roond the third, and yir nose 'ill ...

— Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush • Ian Maclaren

... into a street running at right angles to the main street. I followed this cross street to my left, and found on the right hand side of it three short Ionic pillars with their entablatures, close to the rotunda. Proceeding in the same direction I soon reached a quadrangle (s) of fine large Corinthian columns, the ...

— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt

... been walking about half an hour, perhaps, when he came to a cross street. Here he noticed the tracks of a wagon, the trace still quite fresh, as the slowly falling flakes did not yet cover it. The tracks led out towards the north, out on to the ...

— The Case of The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow • Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner

... swings pulling to the left and turning into the cross street, and the pointers heaving slightly to the right, the long string made the turn, and the wagon rolled around the corner in the middle ...

— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins

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