trestle

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsəl

Noun

Wikipedia trestle (plural trestles)

1. A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
2. A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a table-top or planks
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     He turned the knob, but the door was locked. Retracing his steps past a vacant lot, the young man entered a shop where a colored man was employed in varnishing a coffin, which stood on two trestles in the middle of the floor.

3. A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.

Related terms

• trestle table, trestle-table, trestletable
• trestle board, trestle-board, trestleboard
• trestle-work
• trestle-tree

Translations

a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs

Finnish: pukki (fi) French: tréteau (fr) m.

Japanese: 架台 (ja) (kadai), 馬 (ja) (uma), 脚立 (ja) (kyatatsu) Scottish Gaelic: sorchan (gd) m.

a folding or fixed set of legs used to support a table-top or planks

Finnish: pukki (fi) French: tréteau (fr)

Japanese: 架台 (ja) (kadai) Scottish Gaelic: sorchan (gd) m.

a framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge

Finnish: pukki (fi) Japanese: 架台 (ja) (kadai)

Portuguese: cavalete (pt) m.

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French: tréteau m. Spanish: caballete m. Dutch: schraag, zaagbok

Anagrams

• letters
• settler
• sterlet