trelliswork

[ trel-is-wurk ]

/ ˈtrɛl ɪsˌwɜrk /

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noun

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Origin of trelliswork

First recorded in 1705–15; trellis + work

Words nearby trelliswork

Treitschke, trek, Trelawney, trellis, trellised, trelliswork, Trematoda, trematode, tremble, trembler, trembles

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How to use trelliswork in a sentence

Four fluted columns ran up to the second-story windows, with vines trained on trelliswork in between.
A Little Girl in Old Washington|Amanda M. Douglas
It was firmly secured by bands of wrought iron, riveted, and forming a kind of open trelliswork over the whole.
The Short-story|William Patterson Atkinson
There are some twenty little houses of trelliswork at this place.
The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume I (of 2)|Hazard Stevens
He made a trelliswork behind which he attacked his foes, the string players.
Franz Liszt|James Huneker

Then again they cross one another from tree to tree and form a trelliswork that at times is next to impassable.
Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena|H. J. Mozans

British Dictionary definitions for trelliswork

trelliswork

/ (ˈtrɛlɪsˌwɜːk) /

noun

work or patterns of trellis; latticework
(as modifier)a trelliswork fence

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