ˈcross-point, n.
[cross a. 2: see point.]
† 1. Name of a step in dancing. Obs.
| a 1592 Greene James IV, iv. iii, Nay but, my friends, one hornpipe further, a refluence back, and two doubles forward: what, not one cross-point against Sundays? 1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. ii. vi. (Arb.) 32 Seeing him practise his lusty pointes, as his crospoynt backcaper. |
2. One of the points of the compass intermediate between two cardinal points.
| 1709 Tatler No. 42 When the Wind is in a cross Point. 1865 F. Hall in Wilson Vish{nacu}u Purá{nacu}a II. 241 note, All the cardinal points, and so the cross-points. |
3. pl. The points of a railway cross-over.
| 1896 Westm. Gaz. 13 July 2/2 When the train has to pass over cross-points. |