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crosstrees

crosstrees is the plural of crosstree.

Meaning of crosstree

Noun

crosstree (plural crosstrees)

  1. (in plural) A timber or metal beam fixed athwartships part way up a mast to spread the rigging.
    • Your most usual point of perch is the head of the t’ gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen) called the t’ gallant crosstrees.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 35”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Questions about crosstrees

What is crosstrees the plural of?
Crosstrees is the plural of crosstree.

Words near crosstrees in the dictionary

  1. crosstracks
  2. crosstrainer
  3. crosstrainers
  4. crosstraining
  5. crosstree
  6. crosstrees
  7. crossunder
  8. crossunders
  9. crossvalidate
  10. crossvalidated
  11. crossvalidation

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