Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A horizontal beam or bar held up by two pairs of divergent legs and used as a support.
- noun A framework consisting of slanted braces and horizontal crosspieces supporting a bridge or causeway.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A frame, consisting of a beam or bar fixed at each end to a pair of spreading legs, for use as a support.
- noun Same as
puncheon . - noun In heraldry, a low stool or bench used as a bearing: usually represented with three legs.
- noun In civil engineering, a framework for supporting string-pieces, as of a railway, a bridge, or other elevated structure, composed of uprights with diagonal braces, and either with or without horizontal timbers below the stringers.
- noun plural The shores or props of a ship under construction.
- noun Same as
trestletree . - noun In leather manufacturing, the sloping plank on which skins are laid while being curried.
- noun An obsolete form of
threshold .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun The frame of a table.
- noun a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles.
- noun See under
Bridge , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
horizontal membersupported near each end by apair ofdivergent legs , such assawhorses . - noun A
folding orfixed set of legs used to support a table-top orplanks - noun A
framework , usingspreading , divergent pairs of legs used to support abridge . - noun A
trestle bridge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a supporting tower used to support a bridge
- noun sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Retell “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce using a local train trestle and creek as the setting.
Short Eerie Reads... ____Maggie 2006
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Retell “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce using a local train trestle and creek as the setting.
Archive 2006-10-01 ____Maggie 2006
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He recalled the trestle west of the forest where the bindlestiffs from the Pacific Fruit line jungled up at nights, or during long layovers.
Strange Alliance Bryce Walton 1953
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The trestle was a double-decked structure of yellow pine, with 10 by 10-in. posts and sills, 10 by 14-in. intermediate and top caps, and 2 by 10-in. longitudinal and cross-braces.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke
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The network of the trestle was a maze of incised lines against the shaded bank opposite.
The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan
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"No, but the trestle is the sticker," some one remarked.
Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank Vance Barnum
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We would have taken any way rather than this; but it was late and growing dark, and the trestle was a short cut home.
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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We would have taken any way rather than this; but it was late and growing dark, and the trestle was a short cut home.
The Story of My Life Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 1903
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"However, the long-term safety and adequacy of the trestle is the primary concern, and if those considerations dictate a necessity to replace the whole thing, we will do it," he said.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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It burned the wooden ties on the trestle, which is about four miles north of Chama.
Durangoherald.com 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word trestle
"In heraldry, a low stool or bench used as a bearing: usually represented with three legs." --Cent. Dict.
June 20, 2012