criss-cross
noun
[ ˈkrɪskrɒs ]
• a pattern of intersecting straight lines or paths.
• "the blotting paper was marked with a criss-cross of different inks"
criss-cross
adjective
• containing a number of straight lines or paths which intersect each other.
• "the streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern"
criss-cross
verb
• form a pattern of intersecting lines or paths on (a place).
• "the green hill was criss-crossed with a network of sheep tracks"
Origin:
early 17th century (denoting a figure of a cross preceding the alphabet in a hornbook): from Christ-cross (in the same sense in late Middle English), from Christ's cross . The form was later treated as a reduplication of cross.
