All crosspiece synonyms

noun crosspiece

• girder — a large beam, as of steel, reinforced concrete, or timber, for supporting masonry, joists, purlins, etc.
• scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
• joist — any of a number of small, parallel beams of timber, steel, reinforced concrete, etc., for supporting floors, ceilings, or the like.
• pillar — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
• plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
• timber — the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
• piling — a cylindrical or flat member of wood, steel, concrete, etc., often tapered or pointed at the lower end, hammered vertically into soil to form part of a foundation or retaining wall.
• sill — Mount, a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 14,153 feet (4314 meters).
• streak — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
• pig — an earthenware crock, pot, pitcher, or jar.
• stroke — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
• strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
• slab — a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
• rib — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
• stake — something that is wagered in a game, race, or contest.
• boom — If there is a boom in the economy, there is an increase in economic activity, for example in the amount of things that are being bought and sold.
• spar — (during World War II) a woman enlisted in the women's reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard (disbanded in 1946).
• ingot — a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.
• batten — A batten is a long strip of wood that is fixed to something to strengthen it or to hold it firm.
• billet — If members of the armed forces are billeted in a particular place, that place is provided for them to stay in for a period of time.
• rail — any of numerous birds of the family Rallidae, that have short wings, a narrow body, long toes, and a harsh cry and inhabit grasslands, forests, and marshes in most parts of the world.
• stripe — a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.
• shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
• pole — Reginald, 1500–58, English cardinal and last Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury.
• rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• lever — tool for lifting
• stick — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
• paling — a stake or picket, as of a fence.
• spoke — a simple past tense of speak.
• crossbar — A crossbar is a horizontal piece of wood attached to two upright pieces, for example a part of the goal in football.
• bail — Bail is a sum of money that an arrested person or someone else puts forward as a guarantee that the arrested person will attend their trial in a law court. If the arrested person does not attend it, the money will be lost.
• bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
• stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
• prop — to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
• trestle — a frame typically composed of a horizontal bar or beam rigidly joined or fitted at each end to the top of a transverse A-frame, used as a barrier, a transverse support for planking, etc.; horse.
• pile — the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
• stud — a studhorse or stallion.
• brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
• rafter — a flock, especially of turkeys.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• reach — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• axle — An axle is a rod connecting a pair of wheels on a car or other vehicle.
• post — power-on self-test
• strut — to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
• column — A column is a tall, often decorated cylinder of stone which is built to honour someone or forms part of a building.
• jamb — Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
• lintel — a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.
• lath — a thin, narrow strip of wood, used with other strips to form latticework, a backing for plaster or stucco, a support for slates and other roofing materials, etc.
• stringer — a person or thing that strings.