Cross-spales. Pieces of timber placed across a vessel, and nailed to the frames, to keep the sides together until the knees are bolted.
Cross-trees. (See Plate 1.) Pieces of oak supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees, at the mast-heads, to sustain the tops on the lower mast, and to spread the topgallant rigging at the topmast-head.
Crow-foot. A number of small lines rove through the uvrou to suspend an awning by.
Crown of an anchor, is the place where the arms are joined to the shank.
To crown a knot, is to pass the strands over and under each other above the knot. (See Plate 5, page 46.)
Crutch. A knee or piece of knee-timber, placed inside of a vessel, to secure the heels of the cant-timbers abaft. Also, the chock upon which the spanker-boom rests when the sail is not set.
Cuckold's Neck. A knot by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope crossing each other, and seized together.
Cuddy. A cabin in the fore part of a boat.
Cuntline. The space between the bilges of two casks, stowed side by side. Where one cask is set upon the cuntline between two others, they are stowed bilge and cuntline.
Cut-water. The foremost part of a vessel's prow, which projects forward of the bows.