Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CROSS'-TREES
CROSS'-TIN-INGCROSS'-WAY, or CROSS'-ROAD
CROSS'-TREES, n.
In ships, certain pieces of timber, supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees, at the upper ends of the lower masts, to sustain the frame of the top, and on the topmasts, to extend the top-gallant shrouds. – Mar. Dict.
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