"crossmember" meaning in English

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        "A transverse structural support."
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          "transverse",
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        "(architecture) A transverse structural support."
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a traverse support",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Querträger"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a traverse support",
          "word": "huapae"
        }
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          "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A beam lying crosswise; a rail."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
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          "beam",
          "beam"
        ],
        [
          "rail",
          "rail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A beam lying crosswise; a rail."
      ],
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        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ],
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          "_dis1": "5 95",
          "code": "ga",
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          "sense": "a beam lying crossways",
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          "word": "ball trasna"
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          "code": "mi",
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          "sense": "a beam lying crossways",
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈkɹɑsˌmɛmbɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "cot-caught-merger"
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  "word": "crossmember"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a traverse support",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Querträger"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a traverse support",
      "word": "huapae"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "a beam lying crossways",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ball trasna"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a beam lying crossways",
      "word": "huapae"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crossmember"
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