Trellis
['trelɪs] or ['trɛlɪs]
Definition
(noun.) latticework used to support climbing plants.
(verb.) train on a trellis, as of a vine.
Checker: Rosalind--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.
Edited by Horace
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Lattice, lattice-work.
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Definition
n. a structure of cross-barred or lattice work for supporting plants &c.: a shed &c. of trellis-work.—adj. Trell′ised having a trellis or formed as a trellis.—n. Trell′is-work lattice-work.
Typist: Millie
Examples
- The chair below suddenly creaked again--I felt the trellis-work pillar under me shake from top to bottom. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The gate, ornamented at the upper part by smartly-painted trellis-work, was locked. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This shell is a framework made up of aluminium trellis work, and divided into seventeen compartments, each having its own gas bag. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Trills of melody were heard behind the scenes, and gurgling from a sweet pasteboard cottage covered with roses and trellis work. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It looked over the wall, if you stood on tip-toe; and, with a trellis-work of scarlet beans and a canary or so, would become a very Arbour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The house was low and long with a trellis with a grape-vine over the door. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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