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trestle

/ˈtɹɛsəl/

trestle noun: a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.

trestle: a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses
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Noun

trestle (plural trestles)

  1. A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
  2. A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
    • He turned the knob, but the door was locked. 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
  3. A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
  4. A trestle bridge.

trestle meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

trestle in Tamil

சாய்கால், தாங்குபடல், தாங்குமானம், தாங்கு சட்டம், முண்டு

trestle in Malayalam

പീഠപ്പലക, ഉയർന്ന പീഠം

trestle in Kannada

ಆನಿಕೆ

Examples of trestle in a sentence

  • 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.
  • There was a row of blue Tardis-like Portaloos out behind the strip of trestle bars.
  • Just beyond Base Station, the Ammonoosuc River is crossed on a simple trestle bridge.

All 15 example sentences with trestle

Forms of trestle

pluraltrestles

Plural of trestle: trestles

Origin of trestle

From Middle English trestel, from Old French trestel (“crossbeam”) (French tréteau), from Latin trānstellum, diminutive of trānstrum.

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Questions about trestle

What does trestle mean?
Trestle means a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
What is trestle in Tamil?
Trestle in Tamil is சாய்கால், தாங்குபடல், தாங்குமானம். See Trestle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is trestle?
Trestle is a noun.
How do you pronounce trestle?
Trestle is pronounced /ˈtɹɛsəl/.
What is the plural of trestle?
The plural of trestle is trestles.

Words near trestle in the dictionary

  1. tressured
  2. tressures
  3. tressy
  4. Trester
  5. Tresters
  6. trestle
  7. trestle bed
  8. trestle beds
  9. trestle board
  10. trestle boards
  11. trestle bridge

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trestle (page history and authors); trestle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trestle (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trestle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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