trestle

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  1. noun A horizontal beam or bar held up by two pairs of divergent legs and used as a support.
  2. noun A framework consisting of vertical, slanted supports and horizontal crosspieces supporting a bridge.

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  • We would have taken any way rather than this; but it was late and growing dark, and the trestle was a short cut home. —  Story of My Life
  • I followed it under the trestle, avoiding discarded cans and bottles, to a narrow beach. —  Muller, Marcia - [15] Till the Butchers cut him down.htm
  • In China a projector squatted in a cleft in the mountains under a railroad trestle, and began hooting into the wind. —  The Cosmic Rape
  • A huge room spanned the far side of the yard, where plasterers on a trestle were remodeling a faded fresco of the Four Seasons into Our Master Courageously Hunting: Libyan lions, out-of-scale panthers, and a rather surprised spotty snake (with a dado of doves on a fountain and little bunny rabbits eating shrubs). —  Two For The Lions
  • Sells and Snohomish County Public Works Director Steve Thomsen said the study will help in developing a long-term replacement strategy for the aging trestle, which is a major link for commuters traveling from I-5 to points east. —  HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
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  1. Middle English trestel, from Old French, alteration of Vulgar Latin *trāstellum, trānstellum, diminutive of Latin trānstrum, beam; see transom.

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  1. Early modern English also tressel (still sometimes used), trestyll, threstle; also dial. trussel; from Middle English trestel (plural trestlis), from Old French trestel, later tresteau, French tréteau =Breton trenstel =W. trestyl (Celtic from L.; the W. perhaps through English¶) (Middle Latin trestellus), from Middle Latin *transtillum, diminutive of Latin transtrum, a beam, cross-bar: see trest and transom.
 

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