trestlework

[ tres-uh l-wurk ]

/ ˈtrɛs əlˌwɜrk /

noun

a structural system composed of trestles.

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Origin of trestlework

First recorded in 1840–50; trestle + work

Words nearby trestlework

tressure, tressy, trestle, trestle table, trestletree, trestlework, tret, treta yuga, tretchikoff, tretinoin, trevally

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Example sentences from the Web for trestlework

The trestlework is burned in places and across these we passed the best we could.
Diary of an Enlisted Man|Lawrence Van Alstyne
Upon the trestlework were perched three boys and a man, fishing.
Historic Waterways--Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers|Reuben Gold Thwaites
How he ever did it I don't see, but he said two soldiers fell through the trestlework and were hurt and had to be left behind.
Diary of an Enlisted Man|Lawrence Van Alstyne
The haggard face of the boy looked out from the surgeon's trestlework of the fractured arm and shoulder.
Under the Law|Edwina Stanton Babcock

Men are busy rebuilding the burned out places in the trestlework and bridging the river, which is narrow here.
Diary of an Enlisted Man|Lawrence Van Alstyne

British Dictionary definitions for trestlework

trestlework

/ (ˈtrɛsəlˌwɜːk) /

noun

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

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