cross wire

How to use cross wire in a sentence

• As the float approaches AA1, the observer at B keeps it on the cross wire of his instrument.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 1 | Various

• B now points his instrument in the direction BF, and A keeps the float on the cross wire of his instrument.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 1 | Various

• Near the cross wire end, hanging from the pipe, was a solid plug, cylindrical in section.

  An Annapolis First Classman | Lt.Com Edward L. Beach

• All being at rest the number on the scale marked by the cross wire of the telescope was 572.

  Fragments of science, V. 1-2 | John Tyndall

• A cross wire in the microscope tells when it is accurately abreast of the line below it.

  The Romance of Modern Mechanism | Archibald Williams