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Crisscrossed

adjective

Marked with crossing lines. Synonym: crisscross.

Crisscross

verb

Cross in a pattern, often random.

Mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines.

Mark with a pattern of crossing lines.

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"Crisscrossed" Quotes from Famous Books

... to be no end to the sharks. Fins crisscrossed the water all about and cut in toward the swordfish in quick, savage rushes. Percy was becoming exhausted; his arms ached; his breath came short. He could not keep up the fight much longer. Where ...

— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

... flanks the A T O, he turned and started northward. As he returned, he would gather up these strays and drive them back to their own range. For in those days, before the barbed wire had reached Texas and crisscrossed it with boundary lines, the cowboy was a fence more mobile ...

— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine

... Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong. He drew and plucked. It buzz, it twanged. While Goulding talked of Barraclough's voice production, while Tom Kernan, harking back in a retrospective sort of arrangement talked to listening Father Cowley, who played ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce