A pair of horizontal struts attached to a sailing ship's mast to spread the rigging, especially at the head of a topmast.
（帆船的）桅顶横杆
Example sentencesExamples
The most common design - in fact the only one I've ever seen in visiting a fairly substantial number of naval facilities - is the pole with crosstrees and no gaff.
The tops, crosstrees and caps of some merchant ships were also white, while clippers and warships and also many merchant ships preferred the more somber black.
I want you to step from the crosstrees onto that, but rest most of your weight against the yard - use the sail furled along the top to hang on to.
The horns of the crosstrees are only shown as a cross section where they are situated in the centre of the bracket.
Its rigging is stacked in place over the crosstrees.
Definition of crosstrees in US English:
crosstrees
plural nounˈkrôstrēzˈkrɔstriz
A pair of horizontal struts attached to a sailing ship's mast to spread the rigging, especially at the head of a topmast.
（帆船的）桅顶横杆
Example sentencesExamples
The tops, crosstrees and caps of some merchant ships were also white, while clippers and warships and also many merchant ships preferred the more somber black.
The most common design - in fact the only one I've ever seen in visiting a fairly substantial number of naval facilities - is the pole with crosstrees and no gaff.
The horns of the crosstrees are only shown as a cross section where they are situated in the centre of the bracket.
I want you to step from the crosstrees onto that, but rest most of your weight against the yard - use the sail furled along the top to hang on to.
Its rigging is stacked in place over the crosstrees.