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.
4. A trestle bridge

Derived terms

trestle bed trestle board trestle table

trestle-tree trestle-work

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
• 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)

• 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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• Dutch: schraag, zaagbok

Anagrams

• letters
• settler
• sterlet