trestle
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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.
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My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
Grandiose building projects were supported by the government, including the erection of towering Buddhist Chinese pagodas and the construction of enormous bridges (wood or stone, trestle or segmental arch bridge ).
From sometime in the late 19th century until 1964, this wooden trestle carried two railroads (the Rutland Railroad and the Central Vermont Railroad ) over the lake just south of the US 2 vehicular bridge.
Part of the trestle on the Rouses Point side has been converted for use as an access pier associated with the local marina.
C.P.R. trestle bridge Many thousands of navvies worked on the railway.
It gets its name from the fact that the wrapping turns cross the poles diagonally and is used to spring poles together where they do not touch as in the X-brace of a trestle.