Usage examples (15)

• “Barn Goddess?” he asked as he clipped a crosstie to one side of Magnus™s halter in a wash stall while I did the other side.
• When it come a rainy day she and I would go over in the woods, and it took four oak trees to make eight crossties, about two lengths eight and a half foot crosstie.
• She stepped off it onto the crosstie and then walked the few steps to the next rail, on which she stood for an instant, looking down at the silvery shine below her boots.
• The crosstie the boy had stepped on had given way almost entirely and flopped downward lazily, swinging easily on a disintegrating rivet, like a shutter on a haunted window.