crosshead

English

From cross +‎ head.

crosshead (plural crossheads)

(mechanical engineering) A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine.
- 1945 January and February, “Notes and News: An Early Caledonian 2-4-0”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
  All the Connor characteristics are seen in this locomotive: sharply inclined cylinders let into the side framing, which was slotted to expose the crosshead; […] .
(journalism) Large text, like a headline but typically drawn from the article, placed partway through the article to break it up visually.
Synonym: crossheading
- 2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  Other bits of furniture include [...] the crosshead, a short heading between paragraphs that breaks up a long piece.
A screw with a cross-shaped indentation for gripping and turning, as opposed to a flathead.
- 2015, Graham Masterton, Buried:
  The screws were crossheads and the screwdriver was slightly too large for them, so he had to hold it at an angle.
(musical notation) A note with an x-shaped notehead, indicating a non-tonal sound such as a drumbeat or a rapped syllable.

metal beam