Those projections at the mast-head serving as supports for the trestle-trees of large and rigging of smaller masts to rest upon. With lower masts they are termed cheeks.
·noun A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odo...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
East out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831). The site is...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.