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# trestle

«trestle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a frame with legs, often a beam on two pairs of sloping…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a trestle, trestles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A trestle is a frame with legs, often a beam on two pairs of sloping legs, used to hold up a table top or plank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#m1)

2) A trestle table is a long table made of a board on trestles, easy to fold away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#m2)

3) A trestle is also a framework of beams that holds up a railway bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

At school fairs, harvest suppers and jumble sales, food is laid on trestle tables. In The Wind in the Willows, a feast is laid on trestle tables. In engineering, trestle bridges carry railways across valleys, especially in North America.

### examples

- We set out the cakes on trestle tables in the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x1)
- The painter stood on a plank between two trestles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x2)
- The old train crossed a wooden trestle bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x3)
- Fold the trestles away after the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x4)
- The banquet was laid on long trestle tables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x5)
- Dad built a workbench on two trestles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/#x6)

### note

Countable. Pronounced TRESS-ul (the t is silent).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trestle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trestle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.