trestle meaning
EN
[-ɛsəl] WTrestle
- A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, especially referring to a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by such frames.
- Many timber trestles were built in the 19th and early 20th centuries with the expectation that they would be temporary. Timber trestles were used to get the railroad to its destination.
- In the later 20th century, tools such as the earthmover made it cheaper to construct a high fill directly instead of first constructing a trestle from which to dump the fill.
- NounPLtrestles
Definition of trestle in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en trestled
- en trestles
- en trestletree
- en trestlework
- en trestle bed
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "trestle" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.