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n. A beam that connects the piston rod to the connecting rod of a reciprocating engine.

n. A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine

n. A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.

n. A person whose skull is marked with the crossed coronal and sagittal sutures; a skull so marked.

n. 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.

n. In printing, same as cross-heading.

n. metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth

n. a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text

"As a supervisor at one local elevator-repair company and the founder, in 1973, of Century Elevator, another repair business, he says that his employees would find old crosshead plates while out on jobs."

block    head    header    heading   

cross-head guides   

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