trestlework

American  

[tres-uhl-wurk] / ˈtrɛs əlˌwɜrk /

noun

1. a structural system composed of trestles.

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trestlework British  

/ ˈtrɛsəlˌwɜːk /

noun

1. an arrangement of trestles, esp one that supports or makes a bridge

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Etymology

Origin of trestlework

First recorded in 1840–50; trestle + work

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Example Sentences

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trestlework

I walked all day, following the track, and in the afternoon crossed the long trestlework of the Jersey Central Railroad over Newark Bay, with my face set toward Philadelphia.

From The Making of an American by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

This somewhat hazardous move he commenced just as we struck a stretch of trestlework which carried the road over a gorge some fifty feet deep.

From Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South by William G. Stevenson

Nearer and higher loomed the steel trestlework upon which rested the giant engine.

From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood

The B. & O.’s timber bridge had been destroyed by Confederate forces in June 1861, and the crossing was thereafter made upon temporary trestlework.

From The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman by Robert M. Vogel

In the erection of a high trestlework viaduct for the Havana Railroad, Bollman apparently became concerned with the tensile weakness of cast iron when applied in long, unsupported columns.

From The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman by Robert M. Vogel

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