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chained_bear commented on the word jackcrosstrees
"Two voices from aloft. One screeched 'There she lays!' from the fore jackcrosstrees: the other, in the maintop, hailed 'On deck there. Galley just abaft the starboard beam.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 194
February 19, 2008