Слово "crossing". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

We risk crossing tipping points

Thence a narrow passage led into the hall: in crossing it, I perceived my sandal was loose; I stopped to tie it, kneeling down for that purpose on the mat at the foot of the staircase.

He would be in despair if that should come to the ears of the king; and as the wound is very serious, seeing that after crossing the shoulder it penetrates into the chest, it is to be feared—"

No French citizen knows whether he is a Burgundian, an Alan, a Taifal, or a Visigoth; every French citizen must have forgotten the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre,7 the massacres in the Midi in the thirteenth century.8 There are not even ten families in France that can supply the proof of their Frankish origin, and furthermore any such proof would be essentially defective, as a consequence of the thousand unknown crossings that can disrupt all the systems of the genealogists.