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

Example Sentences

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trestlework

Pleasant Valley at six o’clock A. M. The Second and Third corps crossed the Potomac to Harper’s Ferry on pontoons, and the Shenandoah river on the trestlework bridge.

From Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery by Theodore Reichardt

In 1868 the remaining trestlework was replaced with Bollman trusses.

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

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

Upon the trestlework were perched three boys and a man, fishing.

From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites