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The MACQUARIE stood out to sea on the larboard tack, under all her lower sails, topsails, topgallants, cross-jack, and jib.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

The light revealed the masts and rigging of the ship for forty or fifty feet from the deck, but beyond the cross-jack yard all was hazy, and the cabin seemed in the odd shadows twice its real size.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

The weather cross-jack braces and the lee main braces are each belayed together upon two pins, and ready to be let go; and the opposite braces hauled taught.

Chapter XXIII. New Ship and Shipmates-My Watchmate 1909

We got up tricing-lines from the jib-boom-end to each arm of the fore yard, and thence to the main and cross-jack yard-arms.

Chapter XXVI. San Francisco-Monterey 1909

I was stationed at the weather cross-jack braces; three other light hands at the lee; one boy at the spanker-sheet and guy; a man and a boy at the main topsail, top-gallant, royal braces; and all the rest of the crew—men and boys—tallied on to the main brace.

Chapter XXIII. New Ship and Shipmates-My Watchmate 1909

Facing downward, head inboard now, and nearly horizontal, he was passing the cross-jack yard.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

"Brace round your head yards!" he now sung out; and the foretack was boarded while the main-sheet was hauled aft, we on the poop swinging the cross-jack yard at the same time, the captain then calling out to the helmsman sharply, "Luff, you beggar, luff, can't ye!"

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

The watch at once ran to their respective stations, Tom Jerrold and I with a couple of others attending to the cross-jack yard.

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

The Macquarie stood out to sea on the larboard tack, under all her lower sails, topsails, topgallants, cross-jack, and jib.

In Search of the Castaways 1873

- "All ready the cross-jack yards?" etc., etc., and "Aye, aye, sir!" being returned from each, the word was given to let go; and in the twinkling of an eye, the ship, which had shown nothing but her bare yards, was covered with her loose canvas, from the royal-mast-heads to the decks.

Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869