Definition of "market-cross" []

• A cross set up where a market is held. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The building to the extreme left is part of the market-cross, erected by dean Denton, but replaced some years since by a light brick building."
• "In England this would be certainly the pedestal of some old demolished market-cross; but it may have been the lower part of some memorial pyramid."
• "Scotland, presided; but Borthwick having escaped to England, he was condemned, and excommunicated, and his effigy burnt at the market-cross of St. Andrews."