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noun

Crisscross n.

A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.

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Etymology of 'Crisscross'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crisscross" Quotes from Famous Books

... before quite realized the place of the Fence in civilization. This is the Land of the Unfenced, where crouch on either hand scores of ugly one-room cabins, cheerless and dirty. Here lies the Negro problem in its naked dirt and penury. And here are no fences. But now and then the crisscross rails or straight palings break into view, and then we know a touch of culture is near. Of course Harrison Gohagen,—a quiet yellow man, young, smooth-faced, and diligent,—of course he is lord of some hundred acres, and we expect to see a vision of well-kept rooms and fat beds ...

— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois

Words linked to "Crisscross" : traverse, get over, pass over, get across, mark, cover, cut through, marking, cut across, cross, crisscrossed, reticular, reticulate, line, track