trestletree

See also: trestle tree

English

Etymology

From trestle +‎ tree.

Noun

trestletree (plural trestletrees)

1. (nautical) One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top.
   • 1813, William Fordyce Mavor, Cook's 3rd Voyage:

     For, besides one of the bibs being defective, the larboard trestletree, and one of the cross-trees were sprung

References

• “trestletree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.