[f. prec.]
1. trans. To furnish with cross-bars; to put or set bars across.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 318. These hiues you must crosse-barre within with clouen stickes. Ibid., 703.
b. To mark with cross-bars; to draw bars or stripes across.
1805. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., II. 97. And suppose you have received it and cross-barred it [a manuscript] where necessary.
1861. Thornbury, Turner (1862), I. 336. Some glancing sunshine cross-barring a sail.
† 2. fig. To obstruct, bar the way of. Obs.
1680. Honest Hodge & Ralph, 22, marg. There’s an unlucky Gentleman, that Cross-bars them in their designs.
