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trestlework

[ tres-uhl-wurk ]

noun

  1. a structural system composed of trestles.


trestlework

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noun

  1. an arrangement of trestles, esp one that supports or makes a bridge
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trestlework1

First recorded in 1840–50; trestle + work
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Upon the trestlework were perched three boys and a man, fishing.

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The boards which form the sides are 1� in. thick, and some of the trestlework is 130 ft. high.

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The B. & O.’s timber bridge had been destroyed by Confederate forces in June 1861, and the crossing was thereafter made upon temporary trestlework.

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Pleasant Valley at six o’clock A. M. The Second and Third corps crossed the Potomac to Harper’s Ferry on pontoons, and the Shenandoah river on the trestlework bridge.

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Colonel Lyon, the general directs that you take the road branching off just below here and leading to the trestlework of the railroad.

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