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trestle

[ tres-uhl ]

noun

  1. a frame typically composed of a horizontal bar or beam rigidly joined or fitted at each end to the top of a transverse A-frame, used as a barrier, a transverse support for planking, etc.; horse.
  2. Civil Engineering.
    1. one of a number of bents, having sloping sides of framework or piling, for supporting the deck or stringers of a bridge.
    2. a bridge made of these.


trestle

/ 藞迟谤蓻蝉蓹濒 /

noun

  1. a framework in the form of a horizontal member supported at each end by a pair of splayed legs, used to carry scaffold boards, a table top, etc
    1. a braced structural tower-like framework of timber, metal, or reinforced concrete that is used to support a bridge or ropeway
    2. a bridge constructed of such frameworks
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of trestle1

1300鈥50; Middle English trestel < Middle French, by dissimilation from Old French trestre Latin 迟谤腻苍蝉迟谤耻尘 crossbeam
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of trestle1

C14: from Old French trestel , ultimately from Latin 迟谤腻苍蝉迟谤耻尘 transom
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The railroad crosses sensitive marine ecosystems using a swing bridge over the Swinomish Channel and a trestle across Padilla Bay within the reservation.

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Both women were crew members working on a railway trestle to prepare a scene for 鈥淢idnight Rider,鈥 a Gregg Allman biopic, when a train slammed into them.

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"It was waiter service when it first started and everyone came and sat at long trestle tables and they were served their pie and It took time when it was busy," Linda says.

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The railroad easement crosses sensitive marine ecosystems over a swing bridge at the Swinomish Channel and a trestle across Padilla Bay within the reservation.

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Stretching from Port Townsend to La Push on the coast, miles of railroad track were converted to trails, including trestles and timber truss bridges beneath conifer canopy.

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