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plural trestletrees
(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. quotations examples
For, besides one of the bibs being defective, the larboard trestletree, and one of the cross-trees were sprung
1813, William Fordyce Mavor, Cook's 3rd Voyage