Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of a pair of horizontal beams set into a masthead to support the crosstrees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, one of two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally fore-and-aft, on the opposite sides of the lower masthead, to support the frame of the top and the topmast, and on the topmast-head in the same way to support the crosstrees and the topgallantmast. See cut under
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical One of two strong bars of
timber , fixedhorizontally on the opposite sides of themasthead to support thecrosstrees and theframe of the top.
Etymologies
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trestle + tree?
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Each mast also sports net-like rigging from the lowest trestletree to the deck.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
chained_bear commented on the word trestletree
See mizen topgallant staysail for a usage note.
March 5, 2008