Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A structure of open latticework, especially one used as a support for vines and other climbing plants.
- noun An arbor or arch made of latticework.
- transitive verb To provide (an area) with a trellis.
- transitive verb To cause or allow (a vine, for example) to grow on a trellis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A structure of light cross-bars, as of wood, nailed together where they cross one another, or of thin ribbons of metal, or of wire imitating this.
- noun A shed, canopy, summer-house, or the like composed, or partly composed, of trellis-work. Such buildings are utilized especially for the support of growing vines.
- noun In heraldry, same as
treille or lattice, 3. - To furnish with trellises or trellis-work; especially, to support or train on trellises: as, to
trellis a vine. - To form into trellis-work; interlace; interweave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An outdoor garden
frame which can be used for partitioning a common area. - noun An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
- noun computing theory A kind of
graph used in communication theory andencryption .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun latticework used to support climbing plants
- verb train on a trellis, as of a vine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The trellis is just on the edge of our lot, and the flowers would be planted in our neighbour's grass, and she's a bit particular about her grass.
tickled... boutell 2007
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Make sure that the stick or trellis is in firm and upright; then plant your peas, pretty thick, and not
Gardening by Myself 1872
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If you’d like to grow climbing vegetables in a small space, this simple DIY vegetable trellis is an excellent compliment to a small garden.
Build An A-Frame Vegetable Trellis For Small Footprint Gardening | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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As for covering up the electrical panel..... the trellis is a great idea.
DesignerBlog Will 2007
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Just there climbing over, and falling over a trellis was a trumpet vine.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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Just to the left of the kitchen wing is a little plot shut in by privet bushes and a trellis, which is where he says the _fine herbes_ are meant to grow.
The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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Beyond the trellis was a small, lonely garden; beyond the garden was a large, vague, woody space, where a few piles of old timber were disposed, and which he afterwards learned to be a relic of the shipbuilding era described to him by Doctor Prance; and still beyond this again was the charming lake-like estuary he had already admired.
The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) Henry James 1879
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I begin to know what the joy of the grape-vine is in running up the trellis, which is similar to that of the squirrel in running up a tree.
My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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I begin to know what the joy of the grape-vine is in running up the trellis, which is similar to that of the squirrel in running up a tree.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The vine of Christian ministry is people; the trellis is the various organizational structures that exist for the health of the vine.
Desiring God Blog 2010
ilrak commented on the word trellis
lattice
April 6, 2009