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trestletree

noun

trestletree

noun

Etymology From trestle + tree.

1

Nautical, Transport 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.

  • For, besides one of the bibs being defective, the larboard trestletree, and one of the cross-trees were sprung1813, William Fordyce Mavor, Cook's 3rd Voyage:

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