Trestle /(?)/
Tres·tle
Trestle
n.
- A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
- The frame of a table.
Phrases & Compounds
- Trestle board
- a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles.
- Trestle bridge
- See under Bridge, n.