Brick-laying. [CROSS a.] A bond in which a course of ‘stretchers’ alternates with one of alternate ‘stretchers’ and ‘headers’ so as to break joint with it and also with the next row of stretchers.
1876. Encycl. Brit., IV. 461/2. The mediæval brick buildings in north-east of Germany are worked in Flemish bond, or as it is there called ‘cross-bond.’
