iron cross

noun4

1. •
   A position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body.
2. •
   A house plant, Oxalis tetraphylla.
3. •
   an acrobatic maneuver where the skier remains upright, but the lower leg bends back at the knee 90 degrees, and the ankles twist 45 degrees, so that the back of the skis form a right-angle cross
4. •
   A defensive strategy in which the two defencemen, a forward and the goaltender align themselves in a diamond shape so that imaginary lines drawn through the two defencemen and through the forward and goaltender form the shape of a cross.

noun1

1. •
   (formerly) the second highest military decoration of Germany, under the military order of the Pour le Mérite, or the cross pattée shape of this decoration.

   • Germans marked booby-trapped areas with black-and-white signs, bearing an Iron Cross symbol or a death's-head. — 2013