different between extend vs crosspiece

English

From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extend? (“I stretch out”).

extend (third-person singular simple present extends, present participle extending, simple past and past participle extended)

(intransitive) To increase in extent.
(intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
The desert extended for miles in all directions.
(transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
(transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
(transitive) To straighten (a limb).
(transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
to extend sympathy to the suffering
to extend credit to a valued customer
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(Can we find and add a quotation of G. P. Burnham to this entry?)
- 1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts (page 155)
  […] the exalted morality of those virtuous brethren in the trade who, with consciences as weak as their own "extended" liquors, sought to convince him that to reduce the drink was a mercy to the poor deluded toper.
(Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
(object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
Synonym: inherit
(intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.
- 1993, The Leatherneck (volume 76, page xxxvi)
  Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.

From cross- +? piece

crosspiece (plural crosspieces)

A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.
(nautical) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts; a timber over the windlass, with pins for belaying the running rigging.

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