1. A street crossing another, or running across between two main streets; a street at right angles to a main street.
1827. O. W. Roberts, Centr. Amer., 234. The principal streets are terminated by views of the hills…. The cross streets are narrower.
1861. Du Chaillu, Equat. Afr., ii. 8. There are a few short cross-streets.
† 2. The place where two streets cross. Obs. (Cf. CROSS-ROAD 2.)
1825. T. Jefferson, Autobiog., Wks. 1859, I. 89. Keeping great fires at all the cross-streets.
