Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crosstree

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: crosstree
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A timber or metal beam fixed athwartships part way up a mast to spread the rigging.

Example Sentences

"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."
"She was wearing the Red Ensign at her cross-trees and the Stars and Stripes aft and she was making about three knots through the twenty-foot opening of the reef."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Italic *kruks /*krukis Latin cruxbor. Old Irish crosbor. Old Norse krossbor. Old English cros Middle English cross English cross Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree English crosstree From cross + tree.

Inflected Forms

crosstrees (plural) cross-tree (alternative)

Questions

What does crosstree mean?: A timber or metal beam fixed athwartships part way up a mast to spread the rigging.
Where does crosstree come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Italic *kruks /*krukis Latin cruxbor. Old Irish crosbor. Old Norse krossbor. Old English cros Middle English cross English cross Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree English crosstree From cross + tree.

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