cross-brace

To Xiongs surprise, the hexagon was only an empty frame with what appeared to be a handle attached to its central cross-brace.

Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

To Xiongs surprise, the hexagon was only an empty frame with what appeared to be a handle attached to its central cross-brace.

Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

To Xiongs surprise, the hexagon was only an empty frame with what appeared to be a handle attached to its central cross-brace.

Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

To Xiongs surprise, the hexagon was only an empty frame with what appeared to be a handle attached to its central cross-brace.

Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

To Xiongs surprise, the hexagon was only an empty frame with what appeared to be a handle attached to its central cross-brace.

Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

To Xiongs surprise, the hexagon was only an empty frame with what appeared to be a handle attached to its central cross-brace.

Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

To Xiongs surprise, the hexagon was only an empty frame with what appeared to be a handle attached to its central cross-brace.

Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

To Xiongs surprise, the hexagon was only an empty frame with what appeared to be a handle attached to its central cross-brace.

Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

It's a backdrop she knows expertly: Mending a fence, one cowhand has to "cast about for a stick or something to twist tight a diagonal cross-brace wire, but the only thing at hand was a cow's bleached leg bone with its useful trochlea head, which seemed made to jam fence wire tight."

Old West and New Collide Amid Cowpoke McMansions 2004

Yarrl wipes his forehead and closes the firebox door, slumping against a cross-brace.

The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994