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TRESSLE TREES

Volume 2 · 46 words · 1810 Edition

in Ship-Building, two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the lower mast-head, to support the frame of the top and the weight of the top-mast.

TREASURE, in Heraldry, a diminutive of an orle, usually held to be half the breadth thereof.