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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A network or frame of timber or steel serving as a foundation, usually on ground that is wet or soft.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In engineering, a framework composed of heavy beams laid longitudinally and crossed at right angles by similar beams notched upon them, used to sustain a foundation and prevent it from settling unevenly in soil of unequal compressibility.
  • noun In lace, a background of separate bars or brides, not woven together into a texture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Hydraulic Eagin.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a foundation of crisscrossing timber or steel beams, usually for spreading heavy loads over large areas.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, trellis, from greille, gridiron; see grill.]

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Originated 1770–80 from French grillage.

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