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Crosstrees   Listen
noun
Crosstrees  n. pl.  (Naut.) Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."





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"Crosstrees" Quotes from Famous Books



... stept hurriedly back, and capsized over the captain, who was still enacting the joint—stool on all—fours behind me, by which Whiffle had mounted to my crosstrees, and there we rolled in the sand, ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott


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