ˈcross-ˌheading
[cross- 4.]
1. Mining. A transverse heading (see quots.).
| 1883 H. M. Chance Rep. Mining Methods in Anthrac. Coal Fields 533 Cross-heading, a passage driven for ventilation from the airway to the gangway, or from one breast through the pillar to the adjoining working. 1904 Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 140/2 Cross Heading, a drift or passage from one level to another for ventilating purposes. |
2. = cross-head n. 2.
| 1898 G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) III. 378 The interview, the illustration and the cross-heading, hitherto looked on as American vulgarities impossible to English literary gentlemen, invaded all our papers. 1967 Listener 16 Nov. 634 It's my great opportunity to be listed under the magical cross-heading ‘from Professor Ayer and others’. |