Words Like CROSSHEAD
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to CROSSHEAD.
    
    
    
        
            5 Alternative Words Similar to crosshead
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        6 definitions of crosshead
           
        
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        A person whose skull is marked with the crossed coronal and sagittal sutures; a skull so marked.
    
    
    
 
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        In mechan., a beam or rod stretching across the top of something; specifically, the bar at the end of a piston-rod of a steam-engine, which slides on ways or guides fixed to the bed or frame of the engine, and connects the piston-rod with the connecting-rod, or with a sliding journal-box moving in the cross-head itself.
    
    
    
 
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        In printing, same as cross-heading.
    
    
    
 
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        A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine
    
    
    
 
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        metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth
    
    
    
 
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        a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text