recross
verbEtymology From re- + cross.
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To cross again.
- The doctor recrossed his legs and followed her impassive gaze which was fixed on the long bread-knife that suddenly appeared to fill the room.1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
- At North Queensferry Station, a short distance beyond the end of the bridge, we left the railway, and made our way down the hill to the pier, to recross the firth by the ferry.1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
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- Rail and river play tag up the valley and passengers can peer down on the dark moorland waters as we cross and recross the Esk as the '158' threads its way along the route.2019 October, James Abbott, “Danby with thistledown”, in Modern Railways, page 3: