Definitions for trellis

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trellis trel·lis

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IPA: /ˈtrɛl ɪs/

Trellis is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in trellis (eillrst).

Definitions for trellis

noun

1. a frame or structure of latticework; lattice.
2. a framework of this kind used as a support for growing vines or plants.
3. a summerhouse, gazebo, arch, etc., made chiefly or completely of latticework.
4. Heraldry. a charge of bendlets overlying bendlets sinister, the whole being cloué at the crossings.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a trellis.
2. to enclose in a trellis.
3. to train or support on a trellis.
4. to form into or like a trellis.

Origin of trellis

1350-1400; Middle English trelis Middle French (noun) Late Latin trilīcius (for Latin trilīx) woven with three threads, equivalent to Latin tri- tri- + līci(um) thread

Examples for trellis

The main trunk is carried up only to the lower wire of the trellis.

Of course this was not quite the case with the inmates of the trellis House.

There was a trellis over the door and jessamine swinging from it.

“Nor half as unpleasant as a funeral,” put in trellis, with a grin.

And the clipped privet bush by the trellis and the may tree by the gate.

You mean that they were brought to the trellis House in the March of 1912?

She was trying to clamber through a trellis of iron and splintered wood.

The old top is discarded as soon as the new trunk is tied to the trellis.

These holes are for the admittance of the middle, lower wire of the trellis.

The wires of the trellis should be put up this year, if this has not already been done.