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trestlework [tres-uh l-wurk] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a structural system composed of trestles.
Origin of trestlework First recorded in 1840–50; trestle + work Examples from the Web for trestlework Historical Examples of trestlework
The trestlework is burned in places and across these we passed the best we could.
Lawrence Van Alstyne
Men are busy rebuilding the burned out places in the trestlework and bridging the river, which is narrow here.
Lawrence Van Alstyne
How he ever did it I don’t see, but he said two soldiers fell through the trestlework and were hurt and had to be left behind.
Lawrence Van Alstyne
Upon the trestlework were perched three boys and a man, fishing.
Historic Waterways–Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers
Reuben Gold Thwaites
The haggard face of the boy looked out from the surgeon’s trestlework of the fractured arm and shoulder.
Edwina Stanton Babcock
British Dictionary definitions for trestlework trestlework noun
- an arrangement of trestles, esp one that supports or makes a bridge