Crossword-Solution: CROSSPIECES 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

The two logs were small and straight, and were lashed together by means of tough roots and crosspieces of wood.

The front rudder 31 is a horizontal rudder having a flexible body, the same consisting of three stiff crosspieces or sticks 32, 33, and 34, and the flexible ribs 35, connecting said cross-pieces and extending from front to rear.

Crosspieces, as yokes, are bound to the timbers with bark lashings, and two or four men shoulder each yoke.

The stretcher consists of two short pieces of bamboo forced apart and so held by two short crosspieces inserted between them.

Their shoulders were the wooden crosspieces that Mademoiselle used for keeping her jackets in shape; their hands were gloves stuffed out with handkerchiefs; and their faces were the paper masks painted in the afternoon by the untutored brush of Gerald, tied on to the round heads made of the ends of stuffed bolster-cases.