English Explanatory Dictionary

iron cross

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body.
  2. an acrobatic maneuver where the skier remains upright, but the lower leg bends back at the knee 90 degrees, and the ankles twist 45 degrees, so that the back of the skis form a right-angle cross
  3. A defensive strategy in which the two defencemen, a forward and the goaltender align themselves in a diamond shape so that imaginary lines drawn through the two defencemen and through the forward and goaltender form the shape of a cross.
  4. A house plant, Oxalis tetraphylla.
  5. Alternative letter-case form of Iron Cross (“a cross pattée used as a German military decoration”).
noun
  1. (formerly) the second highest military decoration of Germany, under the military order of the Pour le Mérite, or the cross pattée shape of this decoration.

Word forms

iron cross iron crosses

Synonyms

lucky clover four-leaf sorrel four-leaved pink-sorrel crucifix

Related words

twister spread daffy cossack JLB Knight's Cross Grand Cross Blue Max Medal of Honor Victoria Cross

Derived words

Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Grand Cross to the Iron Cross Grand Cross of the Iron Cross Star of the Grand Cross to the Iron Cross Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
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