Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A trestle or system of trestles, as that supporting a bridge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A series of trestles and connected framing, supports, etc., forming a viaduct, as for a railway.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a system of
trestles , especially one used tosupport abridge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g.
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Examples
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Rusling observed grades of over a hundred feet to the mile, “and in many places the track literally springs into the air, over immense trestlework bridges or along the dizzy edges of precipices that seem fraught with peril and destruction.”
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Rusling observed grades of over a hundred feet to the mile, “and in many places the track literally springs into the air, over immense trestlework bridges or along the dizzy edges of precipices that seem fraught with peril and destruction.”
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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His shadow is carried strained coarsely back through the network of wood inside the stable-beams, lodgepoles, stall uprights, trough-trestlework, rafters, wood ceiling-slats the sun comes through: blinding empyrean even at this failing hour of the day.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Galveston Island (experiment No. 12), and so well did it seem to succeed at first that it was proposed to extend the process to railroad trestlework, to fencing, to supports for houses, and to telegraph poles.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various
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In the timbers of the bridges, in the trestlework and ties of railroads and in the piling of the wharves will be found portions showing rapid decay, while other portions are yet firm and in sound condition.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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This somewhat hazardous move he commenced just as we struck a stretch of trestlework which carried the road over a gorge some fifty feet deep.
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I would have reversed the engine, but a fear that a reversal of its action would crowd up the cars on the trestlework and throw them into the gorge below, forbade; nor was there wisdom in jumping off, as the steep embankments on either side would prevent escape from the wreck of the cars when the collision came.
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As the locomotive reached the end of the trestlework the grade rose a little, and I could see through, or in,
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Nearer and higher loomed the steel trestlework upon which rested the giant engine.
The Man Who Rocked the Earth Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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After preaching what he felt to be unprovable futilities, it was no small satisfaction to Brenton to come into contact with a man whose sane and practical working creed was supported by a perfect trestlework of interlocking equations based, in their turn, on fundamental and well-proved natural laws.
The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905
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