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Crosstree

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A light timber or metal spreader fixed athwartships part way up a mast to spread the shrouds from higher up

    "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."

Etymology

From cross + tree.

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