crosstrees's Usage Examples:

SubstructureThe oak trestle is composed of two crosstrees, four quarterbars and the main post.

The crosstrees stand within 3 ft 4 in (1.

The work included new crosstrees and quarterbars, a new windshaft, both breast and tail of the mill rebuilt.

laterally by shrouds that connected to either a platform, called a "top", or cross-wise beams, called "crosstrees", and anchored futtock shrouds from below.

The crosstrees are 24 feet (7.

masts were secured by five (foremast: six) shrouds per side, the wooden topmasts with four shrouds per side to the crosstrees.

connected to either a platform, called a "top", or cross-wise beams, called "crosstrees", and anchored futtock shrouds from below that led to the lower mast.

Because crosstrees are smaller, there is less need for alternatives to the futtock shrouds.

Masts bright; mast heads, top caps, crosstrees, bowsprit and gaff painted white.

and held a platform ("top") supported underneath by trestletrees and crosstrees and further secured to the bowsprit with a series of special chain plates.

lowered or raised with the sails, but is, with its claw at around the crosstrees, hung into a jackstay that runs from the mast cap to and through the gaff"s.

The brick piers that the crosstrees.

The crosstrees are 22 feet (6.