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Crossing the tracks and the little steel trestled bridge over a small river brought us into sight of the first structures of the un-named town.

Sacrifice Hugh Barlow 2011

In my head, I imagined that prunes grew in the way that grapes did, in trestled vineyards, and pickers would come along, hands clad in canvas gloves, and pluck the shrivelled but still moist fruits from their stems.

Archive 2007-03-01 Kirsty 2007

In my head, I imagined that prunes grew in the way that grapes did, in trestled vineyards, and pickers would come along, hands clad in canvas gloves, and pluck the shrivelled but still moist fruits from their stems.

Prunes Kirsty 2007

As he entered the shop from the passage, the street door was on his left, there was a trestled show-table, cloth-covered, and the rear part of the room was all narrow shelving, the small furnace cold, and the work-benches, at which Daniel was working on a setting for a clouded moss agate, brows locked in a gloomy knot.

The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

Sometimes, paralleling the road, the new High Line canal followed an upper cut; it trestled a ravine or, stopped by a rocky cliff, bored through.

The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

As occasion may demand, the flume is trestled, the main supports being placed every eight feet.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various

There was a long trestled table down the middle of the men's cabin, and each man, streaming out, picked up a plate and got it filled with food, and sat himself down in what seemed to be an appointed place.

I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931

Even the cheerily authoritative voice of the megaphone up on the bridge had now ceased, and there was no reassuring reminder of life there -- nothing but the black outline of the trestled structure, slanting at a dreadful angle with the water pouring from it.

Tom Slade with the Colors Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

Owing to the number and depth of the ravines trestled, the high price of rails, and other expenditures, when a settlement was made that company was found to have the controlling interest.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

"Maclennan, that hole has got to be filled up, bridged, or trestled, and we can't wait too long, either."

The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Ralph Connor 1898