On came the watery mountain with its curling crest of snowy foam, and, striking the ship with terrific force and with a noise like thunder, broke over the starboard chesstree, deluging the decks forward and carrying away a fine cutter off the larboard skidds, with some of the rails and carlings of the head. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Hurry] Reference
A sea broke over her chesstree, which nearly drowned us where we were clinging. From Wordnik.com. [Percival Keene] Reference
Then to the chesstree drag the unwilling tack. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
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