trestle

English

Etymology

From Middle English trestel, from Old French trestel (“crossbeam”) (French tréteau).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛsəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛsəl

Noun

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 tabletop or planks.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     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.
4. A trestle bridge.

Derived terms

• trestle bed
• trestle board
• trestle table

• trestle-tree
• trestlework

Translations

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

• Finnish: pukki (fi)
• French: tréteau (fr) m
• Italian: cavalletto (it) m, trespolo (it) m, capra (it) f
• Japanese: 架台 (kadai), 馬 (ja) (uma), 脚立 (ja) (kyatatsu)
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• Latin: vara (la) f
• Maori: kaupae
• Scottish Gaelic: sorchan m
• Spanish: caballete (es) m

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

• Catalan: cavallet (ca) m
• Finnish: pukki (fi)
• French: tréteau (fr)
• German: Bock (de) m, Gestell (de) n
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• Italian: capra (it) f, cavalletto (it) m
• Japanese: 架台 (kadai)
• Scottish Gaelic: sorchan m
• Swedish: bock (sv) c

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

• Finnish: pukki (fi)
• Italian: intelaiatura (it) f, traliccio (it) m
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• Japanese: 架台 (kadai)
• Portuguese: cavalete (pt) m

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Dutch: schraag, zaagbok
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Anagrams

• Stelter, Stetler, letters, lettres, settler, sterlet