r did aboute him flocke,
Like foolish flies about an honey-crocke."

CROCODILES. A designation for those who served in Egypt under Lord
Keith.

CROJEK. The mode of pronouncing _cross-jack_ (which see).

CRONNAG. In the Manx and Erse, signifies a rock that can be seen before
low-water.

CROOKED-CATCH. An iron implement bent in the form of the letter S.

CROOKS. _Crooked timbers._ Short arms or branches of trees.

CROONER. The gray gurnard (_Trigla gurnardus_), so called on account of
the creaking noise it makes after being taken.

CROSS-BARS. Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn
the shank of an anchor.

CROSS-BAR-SHOT. The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly _bar-shot_, used
by the Americans: when folded it presented a bar or complete shot, and
could thus be placed in the gun. But as it left the muzzle it expanded
to a cross, with four quarters of a shot at its radial points. It was
used to destroy the rigging as well as do execution amongst men.

CROSS-BITT. The same as _cross-piece_ (which see).

CROSS-BORED. Bored with holes alternately on the edges of planks, to
separate the fastenings, so as to avoid splitting the timbers or beams.

CROSS-BOW. An ancient weapon of our fleet, when also in use on shore.

CROSS-CHOCKS. Large pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood
amidships, to make good the deficiency of the heels of the lower
futtocks.

CROSS-FISH. A northern name for the _asterias_ or star-fish; so called
from the Norwegian _kors-fisk_. Also, the _Uraster rubens_.

CROSS-GRAINED. Not straight-grained as in good wood; hence the perverse
and vexatious disposition of the ne'er-do-wells. As Cotton's _Juno_--

"That cross-grained, peevish, scolding queen."

CROSS-HEAD. In a steamer's engine, is on the top of the piston-rod
athwart the cylinder; and there is another fitted to the air-pump, both
having side-rods. (_See_ CYLINDER CROSS-HEAD.)

CROSSING A SHIP'S WAKE. When a ship sails over the transient track which
another has just passed, _i.e._ passes close astern of her.

CROSSING THE CABLES IN THE HATCHWAY. A method by which the operation of
coiling is facilitated; it alludes to hempen cables, which are now
seldom used.

CROSS IN THE HAWSE. Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows
has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two cables lie across each
other.--_To cross a vessel's hawse_ is to sail across the line of her
course, a little ahead of her.

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