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.
1822. Bewick, Mem., 239. Some impressions from wood cuts done long ago, with cross-hatching.
1860. [G. A. Sala], in Cornh. Mag., No. 3. 271. A certain kind of cross-hatching went out with Albert Durer.
1873. Geikie, Gt. Ice Age, vi. 74. Such cross-hatchings … seem to be confined to the lowland districts.
1888. W. E. Henley, Bk. of Verses, 46. The long lines of lofty, gray houses! Cross hatched with shadow and light.
So Cross-hatch sb. = cross-hatching; Cross-hatcher, one who executes cross-hatching.
1860. [G. A. Sala], in Cornh. Mag., No. 3. 271. With the engravers, the ‘cross-hatch’ and the ‘double cypher’ … were secrets.
1870. Spectator, 19 Nov., 1384. All the stipplers and cross-hatchers in England.
