Meanings of shaped cross in English

They raised the x- shaped cross and positioned him over the red hot brush-wood.

St Paul was crucified that way, on an X- shaped cross with his legs broken.'

They had nailed him to an x- shaped cross in parody of the very Roman punishment of crucifixion.

Below I recognised one of Bazalgette's famous sewers, complete with egg- shaped cross-section and sturdy English bond brick lining.

Their roofs are steep and curved, with x- shaped cross pieces above their gables and log-like beams laid perpendicularly across their roof ridges.

"Ivory forms in a diamond- shaped cross-hatching with translucent striations; bones form with these parallel striations and darkened pitting."