cross-writing

English

Noun

cross-writing (countable and uncountable, plural cross-writings)

  1. (historical, postal) A 19th-century technique for saving paper and postage by writing a letter in one direction, then turning the page ninety degrees and writing perpendicularly across the first set of text, creating two layers of text; a practical solution to expensive postal rates, especially before modern postal reforms, allowing more information to fit on a single sheet.

Verb

cross-writing

  1. present participle and gerund of cross-write

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