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Meaning of crosstree | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A light timber or metal spreader fixed athwartships part way up a mast to spread the shrouds from higher up

Equivalents

Deutsch Saling
Suomi saalinki
Nederlands zaling
Polski saling
Русский са́линг

Examples

“Your most usual point of perch is the head of the t’ gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen) called the t’ gallant crosstrees.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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