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# trestle

noun (a trestle, trestles)

«trestle» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A trestle is a frame with legs, often a beam on two pairs of sloping legs, used to hold up a table top or plank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#m1)
2. A trestle table is a long table made of a board on trestles, easy to fold away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#m2)
3. A trestle is also a framework of beams that holds up a railway bridge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#m3)

### In the lessons

At school fairs, harvest suppers and jumble sales, food is laid on trestle tables. In The Wind in the Willows, a feast is laid on trestle tables. In engineering, trestle bridges carry railways across valleys, especially in North America.

### Examples

- We set out the cakes on trestle tables in the hall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x1)
- The painter stood on a plank between two trestles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x2)
- The old train crossed a wooden trestle bridge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x3)
- Fold the trestles away after the fair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x4)
- The banquet was laid on long trestle tables. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x5)
- Dad built a workbench on two trestles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Pronounced TRESS-ul (the t is silent).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «trestle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«trestle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/trestle.html) on Mova free.