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How to use trestle in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Trestle means a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses. Example: “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.”

Examples of trestle by meaning

nounA folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.

  • 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

More sentences with trestle

  • Domestic spanking is often endured over the knee (or lap), formal spanking rather applied over a contraption such as a trestle or A-frame, with or without constraints.From the entry spanking
  • There was a row of blue Tardis-like Portaloos out behind the strip of trestle bars.2007, Jonathan Trigell, Cham, Corsair, published 2012, →ISBN. From the entry TARDIS-like
  • Just beyond Base Station, the Ammonoosuc River is crossed on a simple trestle bridge.1954 November, Robert F. Legget, “The Mount Washington Cog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 790. From the entry trestle bridge
  • The rest of the armour and two of his weapons are seen on the trestle table.1904, The Archaeological Journal, page 307. From the entry voider
  • 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
  • She started walking over to the trestle table and, about ten years later, sat down on one of the thirty-three bentwoods.1985, “‘Do I Love You? How Do You Mean?’”, in The New Yorker, volume 61, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, page 45. From the entry bentwood
  • Becky Robinson, 15, of Kent, started leading her filly, Lady, across the Pacific Coast Railway trestle here yesterday afternoon.1969 May 24, “Lady Balks”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle, retrieved 16 Aug 2009, page 8. From the entry no way to treat a lady
  • A timber trestle bridge was used in this instance because the boggy peat soil offered only a poor foundation.1957 January, “Notes and News: A Trestle Bridge in the Highlands”, in Railway Magazine, page 65. From the entry trestle bridge
  • 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
  • Grandfather Frahm told young Herbert how his father had been held over a trestle and whipped repeatedly for disobedience, as if serfdom persisted.1975, David Binder, “Who Is Willy Brandt?”, in The Other German: Willy Brandt’s Life & Times, Washington, D.C.: The New Republic Book…. From the entry core memory
  • 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
  • You know that little trestle bed in the garret room, with the old mattress on it that the last minister left there?1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley. From the entry trestle bed
  • Recruits need do nothing more elaborate than trestle, single-lock, and double-lock bridges and barrel-pier rafts, but they should go through a prolonged course of pontooning.1905, The Royal Engineers Journal, volume 2, page 284. From the entry pontooning
  • 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.

Full definition of trestle

Questions about trestle in a sentence

How do you use trestle in a sentence?
Trestle is used as a noun. For example: “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.”
What is a short sentence with trestle?
“Just beyond Base Station, the Ammonoosuc River is crossed on a simple trestle bridge.”
What does trestle mean?
Trestle means a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.

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