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Christcross-row en · NOUN

Etymology

Either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. See crossrow.

Meanings

1. (no-plural, obsolete) The alphabet.
   • From infant conning of the Christ-cross-row 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:
   • For though I never attained to the outward flower of scholarship by proceeding to the learned degree of arts at either of the Universities, I gained the root and kernel of the matter at Bishop's Stortford, being able at the age of fourteen to write a fine hand, and read Eutropius, and Cæsar, and teach the horn-book and Christ-Cross to younger boys. 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter I, in Shrewsbury:

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