Definitions for trestles

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trestles tres·tle

Spelling: [tres-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtrɛs əl/

Trestles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in trestles (eelrsstt).

Definitions for trestles

noun

1. a frame typically composed of a horizontal bar or beam rigidly joined or fitted at each end to the top of a transverse A-frame, used as a barrier, a transverse support for planking, etc.; horse.
2. Civil Engineering. one of a number of bents, having sloping sides of framework or piling, for supporting the deck or stringers of a bridge. a bridge made of these.

Origin of trestles

1300-50; Middle English trestel Middle French, by dissimilation from Old French trestre ≪ Latin trānstrum crossbeam

Examples for trestles

Our troops are on that ridge (Twin Hills) and a squad is at the trestle over there.

Her husband is at present building a trestle on the Dunsmore track.

About a mile distant there was a trestle spanning a deep gorge.

She died of cold, on the trestle on which I had had her placed to send her home.

In column of twos he led his men out on the ties of the trestle bridge.

Suddenly Mildred pointed with her little hand and exclaimed, "There's the trestle!"

The culvert was built underneath a trestle which was afterwards filled in.

Who is that man beside the trestle, with a black doublet and a pale face?

Rope drives were used to shift the cableways along the trestle.

Again she must cross the dark Hoghole trestle alone on her way to the hut.