crojack

English

Noun

crojack (plural crojacks)

  1. (nautical) Synonym of crossjack.
    • 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:
      The lower-topsail, its sheets parted by the fall of the crojack-yard, was tearing out of the bolt-ropes and ribboning away to leeward and making such an uproar that they might well expect its yard to carry away.
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