crisscross.
To move back and forth over or through.
Meaning & usage
To move back and forth over or through.
To mark with crossed lines.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”). By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.
A pattern of crossed lines.
A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
A kind of crossword puzzle having no clues or definitions, but only a list of words that must be fitted into the grid.
A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”). By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.
Marked with crossed lines; crisscrossed.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”). By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.
Crossing one another.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”). By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.
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