Plural of trestle

Forms of trestle

Trestles in a sentence

• Retracing his steps past a vacant lot, the young man entered a shop where a colored man was employed in varnishing a coffin, which stood on two trestles in the middle of the floor.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars
• He passed the bridge gang, hard at work strengthening the piers on one of the trestles over the Roaring Fork.2003, Cathy L. Clamp, Road to Riches: The Great Railroad Race to Aspen, page 142. From the entry bridge gang
• Ah, but someone was raising her, so they were going to lay her on the trestles, and she not dead.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry contritely
• It has only one square step, to be steady, yet notwithstumbling are they stalemating backgammoner supstairs by skips and trestles tiltop double corner.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC…. From the entry arkwright
• From the kitchen window, the kitten crouching at her side, Madge watched as spit roasters assembled, trestles trundled and box upon box of glasses were stacked behind the bar.2014, Marion Steed, chapter 4, in Rough Places, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry spit roaster

Meaning of trestle

1. noun A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
2. noun A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
3. noun A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.

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Questions about the plural of trestle

What is the plural of trestle?

The plural of trestle is trestles.

Is trestle countable?

Trestle is a countable noun.