Definition of "crosshatch" []

• To mark or shade with two or more sets of intersecting parallel lines. (verb-transitive)
• A pattern made by such lines. (noun)
• The symbol (#). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "These were east-west ridges, what is called crosshatch fighting."
• "Beneath the crosshatch gazes of the satellites and above the maze of sound, seahorse clouds exhale a glaucoma haze before they are absorbed into surveillance footage."
• "Score the skin of pork belly in a crosshatch pattern, leaving about 1½ inches between each slice."