Crosshead
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A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a blockattached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiecerunning between parallel slides, which receives motion from thepiston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, whichis hinged to the crosshead.
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a person who is bad-tempered; crosspatch.
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