"Crosstrees" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a lookout on the fore-topmast crosstrees; but almost every one was looking out in the direction where some trace of David and Jonathan might be discovered. And the minutes seemed lengthened into hours as they anxiously peered into the mass of slatey-brown water in front and around topped with yeasty foam. But the sky was ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... and fittings of a mast follow: the step, the head, the caps, crosstrees, truck, topmast, boom, and gaff. The part of the gaff that rests on the mast is called the throat; the end of the gaff is called the peak. The jib-boom is a term used only in connection with model yachts. In larger boats the jib-boom is an extension of the bowsprit. ...
— Boys' Book of Model Boats • Raymond Francis Yates
... measure, I stept hurriedly back, and capsized over the captain, who was still enacting the joint—stool on all—fours behind me, by which Whiffle had mounted to my crosstrees, and there we rolled in the sand, ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott |
