recrossed

English

Adjective

recrossed (not comparable)

  1. Crossed a second time.
  2. (heraldry) Having the ends crossed, like (or as) a cross crosslet.
    • 1817, Alexander Deuchar, British Crests: Containing the Crests and Mottos of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, page 189:
      M'Glashan, Sco. a long cross recrossed, gules, […]
    • 1900, John William De Forest, The DeForests of Avesnes and of New Netherland: A Huguenot Thread in American Colonial History, 1494 to the Present Time, page 245:
      gules, a bend argent acc. by six crosses recrossed argent
    • 1909, Edwin Holland Terrell, Further Genealogical Notes on the Tyrrell-Terrell Family of Virginia and Its English and Norman-French Progenitors, page 21:
      The arms of Poix, assumed by Sir Walter Tyrrell III., at the siege of Jerusalem, were as follows: Gules, with bend argent, together with six crosses, recrossed with small crosslets and pointed in gold, posed three and three.

Verb

recrossed

  1. simple past and past participle of recross
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