Crossword clues for trestletree
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trestletree \Tres"tle*tree`\, n. (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.
--Totten.
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) 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.
Usage examples of "trestletree".
From his position at the upper trestletrees Tristam surveyed this new world.
Chilsey appeared just at the height of the trestletrees, and below him, spaced a few feet apart, a line of men progressed down the ratlines to the deck.
Tristam wedged his back against the mast and pushed his legs through the trestletrees, hooking his feet into the futtock shrouds, but, even so, he was forced to clap onto a line with his hands regularly.
So while he was being patient in the topmast trestletrees, Jack looked down at the crew, struggling up the ratlines and coughing, spitting, and scratching themselves just like the audience in a theatre, waiting for the show to begin.
It lies on the trestletrees and crosstrees about five parts of the way up the foremast: and so the remaining length of lower mast runs double with the topmast, just as these two do here.
We sway it up from below and fix it to the lower mast, rather like a marine clapping a bayonet on to his musket: it comes up through the trestletrees, and when it is high enough, so that the hole in the bottom of it is clear, we ram a fid through, banging it home with the top-maul, which is this hammer you were asking about, and we sing out "Launch ho!