📖 C — The English dictionary · page 91

crossbow — Everyday, meaning 1: A weapon made of a small bow fixed across a wooden stock, which shoots short arrows called bolts when you pull a trigger.↗ Example: Medieval soldiers fired crossbows at the castle walls.↗ · A crossbow bolt is shorter than an arrow.↗ · Crossbows were slower to reload than longbows.↗ · The museum had a crossbow from the 1400s.↗ · Crossbows are dangerous weapons, not toys.↗ · In ancient China, people also used crossbows.↗ · Both portraits had many holes in them, because the baron's sons used the two old people as targets for their crossbows.↗

crossing — Everyday, meaning 1: A crossing is a place where you can go across a road, a river or a railway safely, like a pedestrian crossing or a level crossing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crossing is a trip across water, like a ferry crossing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Crossing (verb) means going across: «crossing the road».↗ Example: The boat makes 4 crossings a day.↗ · The ferry carries 30 people each crossing.↗ · Walk to the crossing, then turn left.↗ · How many crossings to move 100 people?↗ · Always use the zebra crossing near the school.↗ · Wait for the green man at the crossing.↗ · The crossing guard held up her stop sign.↗ · The ferry crossing to the island takes an hour.↗ · They were crossing a very rough, snowy field when Jane first noticed the animals.↗ · He also formed and designed from his Spirit, and from the void and formless made earth, even as a rampart, or standing wall, and varied its surface even as the crossing of beams.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

crossly — Everyday, meaning 1: Crossly means in an angry or annoyed way.↗ Example: «Clean up this mess!» said Mum crossly.↗ · The teacher looked crossly at the noisy boys.↗ · He crossly slammed the door.↗ · «I'm not tired,» the toddler said crossly.↗ · The cat swished its tail crossly.↗ · She answered crossly because she was hungry.↗ · When they reached the house the old woman received them very crossly.↗

crossness — Everyday, meaning 1: Crossness is the feeling or state of being cross, that is, annoyed or a bit angry.↗ Example: Her crossness disappeared when she saw the birthday cake.↗ · There was a note of crossness in Dad's voice.↗ · He tried to hide his crossness about losing the game.↗ · The teacher's crossness was clear from her frown.↗ · Tiredness often turns into crossness at the end of the day.↗ · Grandma's crossness never lasted long.↗ · The old man had for a long time ceased to take any notice of her crossness.↗

crossroad — Everyday, meaning 1: A crossroad is a place where two roads meet and cross each other.↗ It is usually called a crossroads.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «At a crossroads» also means at a time when you must make an important choice.↗ Example: The shop is 2 km from the crossroads.↗ · Turn left at the crossroad and walk 300 metres.↗ · There are 4 crossroads in the town.↗ · How far is it from home to the crossroads and on to school?↗ · There are traffic lights at the crossroads.↗ · Stop and look both ways at the crossroads.↗ · The old signpost at the crossroads points to three villages.↗ · The hero stood at a crossroads and had to choose a path.↗

crosswalk — Everyday, meaning 1: A marked place on a road where people walk across, often with white stripes or traffic lights; the US and Canadian word for a pedestrian crossing.↗ Example: Always cross the street at the crosswalk.↗ · We waited at the crosswalk for the green walk sign.↗ · The crossing guard helped us at the crosswalk.↗ · Look both ways even at a crosswalk.↗ · The crosswalk has wide white stripes.↗ · Cars must stop for people in the crosswalk.↗

crossway — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A crossway is a place where two or more roads meet; a crossroads.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A place where two or more roads meet.↗ Example: They carried the pots out to a crossway.↗ · She was buried at a crossway.↗ · Wait for me at the crossway by the old oak.↗ · Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.↗ (Prophets OBA.1.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Then they carried out the pots to a crossway.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · “I had an evil vision,” said she, “I saw crossways.↗ (Irish Fairy Tales) · Her body was passed underneath the threshold and buried at a crossway.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore)

crossways — Everyday, meaning 1: Across from one side to the other, not along; at an angle, often a right angle, to something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Placed so that one thing crosses over another, like an X.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A crossways is a place where four or more roads meet, a crossroads.↗ Example: Cut the sandwich crossways into two triangles.↗ · Lay the planks crossways over the stream.↗ · The sticks were placed crossways to make a cross.↗ · The carrot was sliced crossways into round coins.↗ · The car stopped crossways across the road and blocked it.↗ · Fold the paper crossways, from one corner to the other.↗ · (US informal) He got crossways with his coach and was benched.↗ · When they had got on some way they came to four crossways, each leading to a different country.↗

crosswise — Everyday, meaning 1: Crosswise means across, in a cross shape, or against the length of something.↗ Example: A bone had stuck crosswise in his throat.↗ · Break off a branch and strike the hearth with it crosswise.↗ · Lay the sticks crosswise to make a cross.↗

crossword — Everyday, meaning 1: A word puzzle where you write words into a grid of squares, across and down, using clues.↗ Example: Grandma does the crossword every morning.↗ · I'm stuck on 7 across.↗ · We made a science crossword for our topic.↗ · The crossword clue was «a baby cat» — kitten!↗ · Cryptic crosswords have tricky clues.↗ · Fill in the crossword with a pencil.↗

crotchet — Everyday, meaning 1: (music, UK) A crotchet is a musical note that lasts for one beat in most music; in the USA it is called a quarter note.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned) A crotchet is a strange, fixed idea or habit.↗ Example: A crotchet lasts for one beat.↗ · Two quavers fit into one crotchet.↗ · Clap four crotchets in each bar.↗ · A minim is as long as two crotchets.↗ · The crotchet has a black head and a stem.↗

crouch — Everyday, meaning 1: To crouch means to bend your knees and lower your body close to the ground, leaning forward a little.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crouch is that low, bent position.↗ Example: The cat crouched low, ready to pounce.↗ · Crouch down under your desk during the earthquake drill.↗ · We crouched behind the bush during hide-and-seek.↗ · Sprinters crouch at the starting line.↗ · Stay low and crouch if there is smoke.↗ · I crouched to tie my shoelace.↗ · The young man crouched low to the ground.↗ · They can do nought except crouch under the captives, and fall under the slain.↗ (Prophets ISA.10.4, JPS 1917)↗

crow — Everyday, meaning 1: A crow is a large black bird with a loud harsh call.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To crow (of a rooster) is to make its loud morning cry.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To crow is to boast happily about winning.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «As the crow flies» means in a straight line.↗ Example: A crow sat on the fence cawing.↗ · The rooster crowed at dawn.↗ · Stop crowing about your score.↗ · Crows can use sticks as tools.↗ · The town is ten miles away as the crow flies.↗ · In the fable, the crow dropped stones into the jug.↗ · Just then a Crow flew by.↗

crowbar — Everyday, meaning 1: A crowbar is a long, heavy metal bar with a flat or bent end, used to lift or force things open.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It works as a lever, so a small push gives a big force.↗ Example: The builder used a crowbar to lift the old floorboards.↗ · He forced the stuck lid open with a crowbar.↗ · A crowbar is a kind of lever.↗ · The longer the crowbar, the easier it is to lift the stone.↗ · Firefighters used a crowbar to open the jammed door.↗ · Dad pulled out the rusty nails with a crowbar.↗ · Crowbars are very heavy.↗ · The thief left a crowbar behind.↗ · When the people outside found that the door was not opened to them, they took crowbars and forced the portal.↗

crowd — Everyday, meaning 1: A crowd is a large group of people together in one place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To crowd means to gather closely together, or to fill a place so it is very full.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To crowd someone means to stand too close to them.↗ Example: A huge crowd watched the parade.↗ · The crowd cheered when our team scored.↗ · If you get lost in a crowd, find someone in uniform.↗ · People crowded around the street magician.↗ · Don't crowd him; give him some space.↗ · The train was crowded this morning.↗ · About 50,000 people were in the crowd.↗ · Hold my hand so we don't get separated in the crowd.↗ · The beach is disgracefully crowded this season.↗

crown — Everyday, meaning 1: A crown is a round ornament, often gold with jewels, that a king or queen wears on the head.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Crown means the power of the king or queen and the government.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The crown is the top part of something, like your head, a hat, a tree or a tooth.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A crown is a cover a dentist puts on a damaged tooth.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To crown means to put a crown on someone to make them king or queen, or to declare someone a winner.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A ring of gold or jewels worn on the head by a king or queen; in the Sefer Yetzirah sentence it means the highest point of a list.↗ Example: The queen wore a golden crown.↗ · The new king was crowned in the abbey.↗ · She was crowned champion of the spelling bee.↗ · We made paper crowns for the party.↗ · The crown jewels are kept in the Tower of London.↗ · The dentist put a crown on my grandma's tooth.↗ · The ball hit him on the crown of his head.↗ · "Then give me your gold crown."↗ · And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.↗ (Torah EXO.37.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.↗ (Torah EXO.25.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.↗ (Torah EXO.29.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness; and Thy paths drop fatness.↗ (Writings PSA.65.12, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.↗ (Writings JOB.19.9, JPS 1917)↗ · His enemies will I clothe with shame; but upon himself shall his crown shine.'↗ (Writings PSA.132.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.↗ (Torah EXO.37.11, JPS 1917) · "But hadn't my great-great-however-much-it-is-grandfather a crown?"↗ (The Book of Dragons) · The highest Crown is Kether, the First Sephira, the first emanation from the Ain Suph Aur, the Limit- less LightC↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)

crowned — Everyday, meaning 1: Crowned means had a crown put on the head to become king or queen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Crowned means officially named the winner or best («crowned champion»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Crowned can mean covered at the top («a hill crowned with snow»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Crowned can also mean decorated on the head with a wreath or garland, like a crown.↗ Example: Queen Victoria was crowned when she was a young woman.↗ · The prince was crowned king after his father died.↗ · Our team was crowned champion of the school league.↗ · The hill was crowned with snow.↗ · The winner of the baking contest was crowned «Star Baker».↗ · In the story, the frog was crowned king of the pond.↗ · A crowned eagle sits on top of the flag.↗ · POLYHYMNIA, the muse of Sacred Hymns, is crowned with a wreath of laurel.↗ · He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned it, combined and formed with it Aquarius in the Year, and the gullet in Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Tau, predominant in beauty, crowned, combined and formed Jupiter in the Universe, the seventh day in the week, and the mouth of man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He produced Nun, predominant in smell, crowned, combined, and formed Scorpio in the world, Marchesvan in the year, and the intestines in man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The thoughtless come into possession of folly; but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.↗ (Writings PRO.14.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.↗ (Writings PSA.8.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon king Solomon, even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.↗ (Writings SNG.3.11, JPS 1917)↗

crozier — Everyday, meaning 1: A crozier is a long staff with a curled top carried by a bishop or an abbot as a sign of office.↗ Example: The abbot planted his crozier in the ground.↗ · The crozier lay in the powerless hand.↗ · The bishop carried a golden crozier.↗