"cross-member" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "cross-",
        "3": "member"
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      "expansion": "cross- + member",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cross- + member.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cross-members",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "cross-member (plural cross-members)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 February, “French 155mph electric locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 124",
          "text": "The machines are supported at the pinion end by the gearcase itself and at the other end by cross-members of the bogie frame.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A beam lying crosswise; a rail."
      ],
      "id": "en-cross-member-en-noun-t4sDOyhb",
      "links": [
        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ],
        [
          "rail",
          "rail"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "a beam lying crossways",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ball trasna"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a beam lying crossways",
          "word": "huapae"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cross-member"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "cross-",
        "3": "member"
      },
      "expansion": "cross- + member",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cross- + member.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cross-members",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cross-member (plural cross-members)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 February, “French 155mph electric locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 124",
          "text": "The machines are supported at the pinion end by the gearcase itself and at the other end by cross-members of the bogie frame.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A beam lying crosswise; a rail."
      ],
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        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ],
        [
          "rail",
          "rail"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a beam lying crossways",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ball trasna"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a beam lying crossways",
      "word": "huapae"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cross-member"
}