Cross-hatch. World English Historical Dictionary

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v. [CROSS- 6.] To engrave or hatch a surface with parallel lines in two series crossing each other; esp. to shade an engraving or drawing by this method. Hence Cross-hatched ppl. a.; Cross-hatching vbl. sb., the process of marking with crossing sets of parallel lines; the effect so produced.

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1822.  Bewick, Mem., 239. Some impressions from wood cuts done long ago, with cross-hatching.

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1860.  [G. A. Sala], in Cornh. Mag., No. 3. 271. A certain kind of cross-hatching went out with Albert Durer.

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1873.  Geikie, Gt. Ice Age, vi. 74. Such cross-hatchings … seem to be confined to the lowland districts.

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1888.  W. E. Henley, Bk. of Verses, 46. The long lines of lofty, gray houses! Cross hatched with shadow and light.

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  So Cross-hatch sb. = cross-hatching; Cross-hatcher, one who executes cross-hatching.

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1860.  [G. A. Sala], in Cornh. Mag., No. 3. 271. With the engravers, the ‘cross-hatch’ and the ‘double cypher’ … were secrets.

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1870.  Spectator, 19 Nov., 1384. All the stipplers and cross-hatchers in England.

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