Trestle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A horizontal beam or bar held up by two pairs of divergent legs and used as a support.
  • n. A framework consisting of vertical, slanted supports and horizontal crosspieces supporting a bridge.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
  • n. A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a table-top or planks
  • n. A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
  • n. A trestle bridge
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A frame, consisting of a beam or bar fixed at each end to a pair of spreading legs, for use as a support.
  • n. Same as puncheon.
  • n. In heraldry, a low stool or bench used as a bearing: usually represented with three legs.
  • n. 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.
  • n. plural The shores or props of a ship under construction.
  • n. Same as trestletree.
  • n. In leather manufacturing, the sloping plank on which skins are laid while being curried.
  • n. An obsolete form of threshold.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a supporting tower used to support a bridge
  • n. sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    supporting tower    sawhorse    sawbuck    buck    horse   
    Cross Reference
    birago trestle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    gesell    messel    nestle    pressel    tressel   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aqueduct    culvert    girder    viaduct    handrail   
     
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