trestlework

[tres-uh l-wurk]

noun

a structural system composed of trestles.

Origin of trestlework

First recorded in 1840–50; trestle + work

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Historical Examples of trestlework

The trestlework is burned in places and across these we passed the best we could.
Diary of an Enlisted Man
Lawrence Van Alstyne
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
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
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
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

British Dictionary definitions for trestlework

trestlework

noun

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

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