noun. A horizontal beam or bar held up by two pairs of divergent legs and used as a support.

noun. A framework consisting of slanted braces and horizontal crosspieces supporting a bridge or causeway.

noun. A frame, consisting of a beam or bar fixed at each end to a pair of spreading legs, for use as a support.

noun. Same as puncheon.

noun. In heraldry, a low stool or bench used as a bearing: usually represented with three legs.

noun. In civil engineering, a framework for supporting string-pieces, as of a railway, a bridge, or other elevated structure, composed of uprights with diagonal braces, and either with or without horizontal timbers below the stringers.

noun. plural The shores or props of a ship under construction.

noun. Same as trestletree.

noun. In leather manufacturing, the sloping plank on which skins are laid while being curried.

noun. An obsolete form of threshold.

noun. A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.

noun. The frame of a table.

noun. a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles.

noun. See under Bridge, n.

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

noun. A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a table-top or planks

noun. A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.

noun. A trestle bridge

noun. a supporting tower used to support a bridge

noun. sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop

birago trestle  

trestle board  trestle table  trestle-board  trestle-table  trestle-tree  

buck  horse  sawbuck  sawhorse  supporting tower  

gesell  messel  nestle  pressel  tressel  

aqueduct  culvert  girder  handrail  truss  

L  branch  buck  cable railway  clotheshorse