Sentence examples for trestle from inspiring English sources
noun
A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
Sergi Darder, the man taken off on 76.25, published a picture from the dressing room: a trestle table topped with tupperware, raised arms, alien eyes, big grins and a victory sign or two.
The farm's arch in Bermondsey, alongside the Little Bread Pedlar, La Grotta Ices, Coleman Coffee Roasters and Neal's Yard Dairy, is home to trestle tables creaking with tin tubs of purple-fringed kale, neatly arranged wicker trays of asparagus and buckets of tulips and cherry blossom.
Mr Sutherland thinks he may have found a fragment of a handgun, which was small enough to be carried around and probably set down on a trestle table or small carriage to be fired.The arrows would have been fired as part of the opening exchanges.
Accountants and lawyers share trestle tables in open-air offices.
IN WHAT looks like a student lecture hall in the concrete bowels of Guatemala's Supreme Court building, lawyers confront each other behind flimsy trestle tables.
Its members set up trestle tables at weekends in several big cities and hand out leaflets.
Saws for this purpose were generally called pit saws because they were operated in the vertical plane by two men, one of whom, the pitman, sometimes stood in a pit below the timber or under a trestle supporting the timber being sawed.
The bridge-tunnel complex is 17.6 miles (28 km) long from shore to shore and consists mostly of low trestle bridges carrying a two-lane highway.
It was less costly and dangerous to build a rail line above the street on an iron and steel trestle at the second-story level, as compared with digging a tunnel.
Watching from the back, near the tea urn and trestle-table piled with leaflets, Bagehot wondered if the AV demonstration had not misfired: after four rounds of counting, victory went to Meat Feast, presumably annoying quite a few in the room, starting with the vegetarians.
Tall and telegenic, the 50-year-old Socialist politician is as shameless bossing about global companies as he is charming old ladies at trestle-table picnics over bottles of burgundy in his wineland constituency.
