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What are cross-trees?

What are cross-trees? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) Two horizontal beams at the top of the lower and top masts, used to spread rigging and as a standing place for sailors.
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High aloft in the cross-trees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego.
In my fall I grappled with the backstay, and brought myself up, and landed on the cross-trees.
The fid should always be fastened to the cross-trees or trestle-trees, by a lanyard.
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.
The cry is from a man stationed on the fore-topmast cross-trees of the Condor.
Single iron cross-trees at the head of long topgallant-masts, to support royal and skysail masts.

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