trellis

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Beyond the trellis was a small, lonely garden; beyond the garden was a large, vague, woody space, where a few piles of old timber were disposed, and which he afterwards learned to be a relic of the shipbuilding era described to him by Doctor Prance; and still beyond this again was the charming lake-like estuary he had already admired.

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  1. noun A structure of open latticework, especially one used as a support for vines and other creeping plants.
  2. noun An arbor or arch made of latticework.
  3. transitive verb To provide with a trellis, especially to train (a vine) on a trellis.

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  • The top section of the frame is formed by a tubular steel trellis, which is fixed to robust aluminum side members with special high strength bolts. —  Roadracingworld.com
  • Just to the left of the kitchen wing is a little plot shut in by privet bushes and a trellis, which is where he says the fine herbes are meant to grow. —  The House of Torchy
  • Beyond the trellis was a small, lonely garden; beyond the garden was a large, vague, woody space, where a few piles of old timber were disposed, and which he afterwards learned to be a relic of the shipbuilding era described to him by Doctor Prance; and still beyond this again was the charming lake-like estuary he had already admired. —  The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
  • Instead of keeping the earthen walls from crumbling and caving by the use of the wicker-work revetments so general on the Western Front, the Italians use a sort of steel trellis which is easily put in place, and is not readily damaged by shell-fire. —  Italy at War and the Allies in the West
  • The ragged roses had been trained along the verandah-trellis, and fresh Indian matting had been laid down everywhere The garden was still a wilderness, but Bernard declared that he would have it in order before many weeks had passed. —  The Lamp in the Desert
 

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  1. Middle English trelis, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *trilīcius, from Latin trilīx, trilīc-, woven with three threads : tri-, tri- + līcium, thread.

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  1. Formerly also trellice; from Middle English trelys, from Old French treillis, a trellis, from treille, trelle, French treille =Provencal treilla, trelha, trilla, from Latin trichila, also tricla, bower, arbor, summer-house: see trail.
  2. from trellis, n.
 

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