crisscross

1. a pattern of intersecting straight lines or paths.

   the blotting paper was marked with a criss-cross of different inks

1. containing a number of straight lines or paths which intersect each other.

   the streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern

   the swords were strung criss-cross on his back

1. form a pattern of intersecting lines or paths on (a place).

   the green hill was criss-crossed with a network of sheep tracks

   the smaller streets criss-crossed in a grid pattern

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.