"Therefore the vulgar 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. CROSSJACK-YARD [pronounced _crojeck-yard_]. The lower yard on the mizen-mast, to the arms of which the clues of the mizen top-sail are extended. The term is applied to any fore-and-aft vessels setting a square-sail, flying, below the lower cross-trees. It is now very common in merchant ships to set a sail called a cross-jack upon this yard. CROSS-PAWLS. _See_ CROSS-SPALES.