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hounds

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 371 words | Copyright

hounds, wooden shoulders bolted below the masthead to either side of a wooden mast of a sailing vessel which originally supported the trestle-trees. In smaller vessels without trestle-trees hounds were used to support the shrouds by which the mast was stayed laterally. In the days of large sailing ships the hounds of the lower masts were more properly known as cheeks.

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