Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
trestle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trestle.
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- noun A
trestle .
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Examples
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Decided to post up on a train tressel where deer were frequently traveling.
OK here's your chance. What is your most interesting hunting or fishing story? 2009
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Decided to post up on a train tressel where deer were frequently traveling.
OK here's your chance. What is your most interesting hunting or fishing story? 2009
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To persons acquainted with secret societies a good comparison for the charts or rolls would be what is called the tressel board of the
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 Walter James Hoffman 1872
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To persons acquainted with secret societies a good comparison for the charts or rolls would be what is called the tressel board of the
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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So saying, he sat down on a tressel which answered the purpose of a chair, and placing the lantern beside him, proceeded in the most friendly tone:
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A log truck passes under a railroad tressel near Pineland, Texas on Texas FM-1.
Texas FM-1 2006
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A log truck passes under a railroad tressel near Pineland, Texas on Texas FM-1.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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The second piece is a miniature wood block print of a little train going over a hill and tressel by a contemporary German artist.
My 1 EURO art collection baggyk 2005
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We see a semi that was blown over and pinned at the top of this tressel bridge that crosses the river.
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I don't know whether they had the real wisdom to how thorough their intellect and their … Put upon the tressel board a document that was malleable, that could adjust itself and stretch to change as our document has done.
qroqqa commented on the word tressel
variant of trestle
There were the seats where the poor old people sat, worn spare, and yellow like themselves; the rugged font where children had their names, the homely altar where they knelt in after life, the plain black tressels that bore their weight on their last visit to the cool old shady church.
—The Old Curiosity Shop, ch. 17
August 7, 2008