Word Meanings - TRESSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A trestle.

TRESTLETREE
One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural. Totten.
TRESTLEWORK
A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.
TRESTLE
L. transtillum a little crossbeam, dim. of transtrum a crossbeam. Cf. 1. 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,