crossbeam

Dangling by a wire from a crossbeam was a large white cardboard sign.

Tom Swift Jr And His Giant Robot

Facing Tristan again, she found him sitting casually on the edge of the footbridge railing, one foot propped on a crossbeam, as if waiting on someone to hand him a beer.

Blood Trinity

Not that the teenage idiot I was who is, by the way, still swinging freely from a crossbeam and turning a lovely shade of blue would have believed that dopey, feel-good phrase anyway.

Late, Late at Night

Finally, the guard stopped in front of a small, crudely constructed dwelling built of logs and meant, Isolde guessed, for housing prisoners, because it had a wooden plank door and a heavy crossbeam that when dropped into place would bar the door from the outside.

Dark Moon of Avalon

Was the makeshift, wonky-looking, floor fan crossbeam still standing atop precarious stacks of pocketbooks at Arcadian?

New Orleans: Eight Used Bookstores within Walking Distance

The rough centurions with the stale breath who had nailed his wrists to the crossbeam were standing below him, waiting as a group of soldiers using a pulley mechanism lifted the crossbeam up from the ground in several strong yanks, to a height where it could be slotted down into the vertical pole of the crucifix that was permanently implanted at this fearsome site of execution.

The Shroud Codex

With his arms outstretched like one nailed to the crossbeam of a crucifix, Father Bartholomew lifted off the ground.

The Shroud Codex

Depending on how deep the notch was cut, the crossbeam might have been flush with the vertical beam, like the cross-stroke on the letter T, or maybe it fit into a deeper slot, forming the traditional four-point cross we see in most religious paintings from the Renaissance period until today.

The Shroud Codex

Otherwise, the crucified man could fall off the crossbeam as it was being elevated to the vertical beam of the cross.

The Shroud Codex

The Roman executioners then used forked poles and maybe a pulley to lift the crossbeam up to where it could be slotted into a notch at the top of the vertical beam to form the cross.

The Shroud Codex