Trestle
['tres(ə)l] or ['trɛsl]
Definition
(noun.) sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop.
(noun.) a supporting tower used to support a bridge.
Typist: Phil--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
(n.) The frame of a table.
Checker: Paulette
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Frame (for supporting a table, bridge, &c.).
Checker: Paulette
Definition
n. a movable support fastened to a top-piece: the frame of a table—also Tress′el.—ns. Trest (Scot.) a beam: a stool; Tres′tle-bridge one whose bed rests on framed sections or trestles; Tres′tle-work a series of trestles forming a viaduct.
Editor: Noreen
Examples
- The news of the struggle spread rapidly, and soon hundreds of interested spectators gathered on the trestle of the East Coast sea-extension railway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The pole lay with one end supported on a trestle, and women were engaged in wreathing it from the top downwards with wild-flowers. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Edison ran it, and just after we started there was a trestle sixty feet long and seven feet deep, and Edison put on all the power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After we got over the trestle and started on down the track, Henderson said: 'When we go back I will walk. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Curves were modified, and grades eliminated where possible by the erection of numerous trestles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Rudolf