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

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

Colonel Lyon, the general directs that you take the road branching off just below here and leading to the trestlework of the railroad.

From An Undivided Union by Oliver Optic

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

As the locomotive reached the end of the trestlework the grade rose a little, and I could see through, or in, a deep cut which the road ran into, an obstruction.

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