cross-trees

Her cross-trees still stuck out when she reached bottom.

THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

The Queen, old woman that she was, but an islander, turned over, swam down to him, and held him up as she struck out for the unsubmerged cross-trees.

THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

Grimshaw contented himself with standing on the main cross-trees.

CHAPTER XII 2010

With a last long scrutiny at the unbroken circle of the sea, David Grief swung out of the cross-trees and slowly and dejectedly descended the ratlines to the deck.

A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL 2010

The mate grabbed three cartridge belts and two Winchesters and skinned up to the cross-trees.

THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS 2010

Normally, even in the darkness, wind, snow, and hail, any decent sailor could scramble another sixty feet higher into the upperworks and rigging here until he reached the mainmast cross-trees, from which point he could hurl down insults at his stymied pursuer like a chimpanzee in a tall tree throwing down fruit or feces from a point of perfect safety.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

The distance between Budmouth and Mellstock was ten or eleven miles, and there being a good inn, ‘The Ship,’ four miles out of Budmouth, with a mast and cross-trees in front,

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

On the cross-trees a figure waved his arms and gesticulated wildly.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

On the cross-trees a figure waved his arms and gesticulated wildly.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

He began to doze, and enjoyed small intervals of ease, till next day in the afternoon; during which remissions, he was heard to pour forth many pious ejaculations, expressing his hope, that, for all the heavy cargo of his sins, he should be able to surmount the puttock-shrouds of despair, and get aloft to the cross-trees of

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004