trestle
IPA: trˈɛsʌɫ
noun
- A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
- A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
- A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
- A trestle bridge.
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Examples of "trestle" in Sentences
- The trestle itself is long and high.
- A trestle carries the trail over the river in the gorge.
- "No, but the trestle is the sticker," some one remarked.
- This took place between the trestle bridge and the tunnel.
- Finally, the design was completed, and the trestle was laid.
- The structure in the trestle is for testing aircraft for EMP.
- In 1904, the line was shortened and the lower trestle was eliminated.
- At the time, it was one of the longest trestle bridges in North America.
- She is thought to be the spirit of a woman killed on the trestle in 1905.
- A solution was found by burying the bottom of the trestle in a mound of earth.
- In 1928, the trestle was filled in and a culvert laid through it for the creek.
- It burned the wooden ties on the trestle, which is about four miles north of Chama.
- The network of the trestle was a maze of incised lines against the shaded bank opposite.
- Retell “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce using a local train trestle and creek as the setting.
- We would have taken any way rather than this; but it was late and growing dark, and the trestle was a short cut home.
- He recalled the trestle west of the forest where the bindlestiffs from the Pacific Fruit line jungled up at nights, or during long layovers.
- The trestle was a double-decked structure of yellow pine, with 10 by 10-in. posts and sills, 10 by 14-in. intermediate and top caps, and 2 by 10-in. longitudinal and cross-braces.
- "However, the long-term safety and adequacy of the trestle is the primary concern, and if those considerations dictate a necessity to replace the whole thing, we will do it," he said.
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