CROSS-TREES, noun 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 top masts, to extend the topgallant shrouds.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.