cross-hatch

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Using a fork dipped into sugar, flatten dough balls in a cross-hatch pattern.

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  1. In engraving, a series of lines intersecting at right angles or diagonally.
  2. In engraving, to shade with lines crossing one another. See cross-hatching.

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  • A new cross-hatch appeared, and new numbers and words. —  Out of Phaze
  • "Well, well, cousin Wren," he greeted brightly, flamboyant in a yellow and blue cross-hatch weave with a silver chain belt. —  The Elf Queen of Shannara
  • Bosch slipped his sport coat off and hung it on a hook on the rack next to a jacket with a gray cross-hatch pattern. —  The Last Coyote
  • Using a fork dipped into sugar, flatten dough balls in a cross-hatch pattern. —  The Herald-Mail Online
  • I wonder what it could be? —  Enchantment
 

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