An important or critical situation.
The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
A group or bunch (of people or things).
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
A difficult maneuver
To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
To hatch.
To seize, as though with claws.
To grip or grasp tightly.
To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
A difficult situation that must be endured.
A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
A hybrid of any kind.
A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
crossfire.
An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
A line drawn across or through another line.
Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
Transverse; lying across the main direction.
cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
To go from one side of (something) to the other.
To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
To mark with an X.
To score a try.
To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.