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cross-tail

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English

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Etymology

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From cross- +‎ tail.

Noun

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cross-tail (plural cross-tails)

  1. A bar in a steam engine connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cross-tail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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