tressel-trees

Updated: July 5, 2026

Truck, in spite of his acquired coolness, looked piteously at all that gallant hamper, in which he had so lately rejoiced, as yard-arm, cross-trees, tressel-trees, and tops rose on the summits of swells or settled in the troughs, like whales playing their gambols.

James Fenimore Cooper - Homeward Bound : or, the Chase