Word Meanings - TRESTLEWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.

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• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• RESTAGNATE
  To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• VIADUCT
  A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• RESTAGNANT
  Stagnant; motionless. Boyle.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• RESTITUTION
  The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• RESTY
  Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. Burton. Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. Milton.
• RESTIFORM
  Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.
• RESTORE
  Restoration. Spenser.
• RESTEM
  1. To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course. Shak. 2. To stem, or as, to restem a current.
• RESTRAIN
  restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;
• SCAFFOLD
  An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyères in a blast furnace. (more info) F. échafaud; probably oiginally the same word as E. & F. catafalque, 1. A temporary structure of
• RESTRAINMENT
  The act of restraining.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• PRESTIGIOUS
  Practicing tricks; juggling. Cotton Mather.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• PRESTIGIATOR
  A juggler; prestidigitator. Dr. H. More.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• FOREST
  A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.