Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A structure of trestles; trestlework.
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Examples
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The date Lynn and Norah go on together gets truncated right in the middle, as Norah is doing a session of "trestling" - clinging onto a railroad trestle as a train speeds overhead.
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The trees were shipped to sawmills to be fashioned into ties and trestling.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Stops were made to inspect tracks, trestling, and culverts, and to view the Chinese workers.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Stops were made to inspect tracks, trestling, and culverts, and to view the Chinese workers.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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But as for the gaps, Montague had decided to bridge them with trestling, which, if made properly of pine, would last from eight to ten years.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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But as for the gaps, Montague had decided to bridge them with trestling, which, if made properly of pine, would last from eight to ten years.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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The trees were shipped to sawmills to be fashioned into ties and trestling.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Each gang had a white, usually Irish, boss, and the whites usually monopolized the skilled work, such as trestling, masonry, and actual rail-laying.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Each gang had a white, usually Irish, boss, and the whites usually monopolized the skilled work, such as trestling, masonry, and actual rail-laying.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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But now a bridge 3273 feet long and with 1000 feet of trestling, resting on thirteen huge piers built on foundations in water from twenty-seven to sixty feet deep, and costing a million and
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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