The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Truck

Sea Terms

The piece of wood of circular shape placed at the extremity of the highest mast, and having small holes or sheaves in it for the signal halliards to reeve through.

Sundries — fender, belaying-pin, bolts, serving-mallet, scraper, chain-hook, marling-spike, hand-spike, ballast-shovel, bucket, boatswain's chair, can-hooks, caulking-iron, ladders, thimble, hank, truck and caulking-mallet
Sundries — fender, belaying-pin, bolts, serving-mallet, scraper, chain-hook, marling-spike, hand-spike, ballast-shovel, bucket, boatswain's chair, can-hooks, caulking-iron, ladders, thimble, hank, truck and caulking-mallet
The mast from truck to lower rigging — royal mast, topgallant mast, topmast, cap, top, trestle-trees, cross-trees and futtock rigging
The mast from truck to lower rigging — royal mast, topgallant mast, topmast, cap, top, trestle-trees, cross-trees and futtock rigging
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