cross-wire

Updated: May 11, 2025

For instance the electric current passing into a building is sometimes mysteriously turned aside and work seriously interrupted. A cross-wire dropping down out of place, and leaning upon the feed-wire has drawn the power into itself and off somewhere else. The cross is apt to be in some unknown place, and much searching is frequently necessary before it can be found and fixed.

S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon - Quiet Talks on Power