Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cross-trees? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
In this paper, we propose a novel cross-trees structure to perform the non-local cost aggregation strategy, and the cross-trees structure consists of a horizontal-tree and a vertical-tree.
As we sail down the Tunisian coast towards Monastir on Saturday morning, the ensign is formally hoisted by the halyard and fixed to the helm of the starboard cross-trees.
Examples from Classical Literature
In my fall I grappled with the backstay, and brought myself up, and landed on the cross-trees.
The cry is from a man stationed on the fore-topmast cross-trees of the Condor.
The fid should always be fastened to the cross-trees or trestle-trees, by a lanyard.
Single iron cross-trees at the head of long topgallant-masts, to support royal and skysail masts.
Just as I reached the fore-topmast cross-trees, they were up to me.
The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off on the other side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little like a gallows.
Your most usual point of perch is the head of the t' gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks called the t' gallant cross-trees.
High aloft in the cross-trees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego.
