(v. t.) A piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample.
(v. t.) A small quantity; a little bit; not much.
(v. t.) A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.
(v. t.) The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything.
(v. t.) A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.
(v. t.) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
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Trestle
Definition:
(n.) 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, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
(n.) The frame of a table.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alternatives, such as building an extended ship loading trestle, were rejected as unsafe and too expensive by the mining industry, which will use Abbot Point to export millions of extra tonnes of coal once it is expanded.
(2) Lunchtime cups of tea are being brewed on a trestle table before resumption, and I finally grab the nicely frantic director, Sean Foley.
(3) Future work involving forensic engineers, forensic pathologists, and lawyers along with community activists should include both public education and a design of less accessible trestles to avoid such tragedies.
(4) Our restaurant, The Clove Club , started out three years ago as two trestle tables in our small London flat.
(5) Less than a week later, the banner ads for beer are still strung up behind the kitchens, but under the soaring roof children play with toy cars and chase balls, a family is picking new clothes from trestles piled with donations, and rows of men charge their phones at a bank of sockets.
(6) From the pile of canvases stacked up on the trestle table, and hung from its metal framework, the buyer had selected Kids on Guns – two sweet little children standing on a hillock of guns and bombs – and Pooh Bear, a version of AA Milne's winsome creation sitting weeping under a tree, honey pot (labelled with a dollar sign) discarded and his foot stuck in a bear trap.
(7) Gaseous myelography remains the best contrast test for establishing this diagnosis, making it possible to distinguish between spinal cords with constriction by stages and "trestle spinal cords" these two conditions often seem related.
(8) The structural framework of the skull of dog has been described as a rigid trestle-like structure; it can be illustrated by mechanically removing nonresistant areas of bone.
(9) Evidently, fatalities more frequently result from victims' disregard for safety--either by crossing the tracks despite warning, or by utilizing railroad trestles as a fishing pier--than from mass disaster.
(10) What do you think?” he asked, as we approached a trestle table of water bottles, laid on by mountain rescue.
(11) Thousands of fins are spread out to dry in the open air on wire mesh resting on trestles, taking up most of the factory yard.
(12) The style is young, hip and playful, with mint-green walls, trestle tables and a bar laden with temptations.
(13) A special wooden trestle was made to fix the subject in the CT scanner in a permanent effort of pronation or supination.
(14) Transform your home We had two trestle tables that we had hired for a fiver each and dressed with white linen, tea lights in Duralex glasses and little flower settings.
(15) Does Justin Welby seriously think a trestle table in the church hall can take on Wonga .com and the £15m it spends on advertising?
(16) • Paseo Colón 15, +34 943 279654, hidalgo56.com , closed Sun and Tues evening, from €2 Casa Senra A couple of streets back from the Zurriola surfing beach, this popular restaurant and pintxo bar in Gros has traditional beams, varnished trestle tables, kitsch paintings, and an enthusiastic following.
(17) It filled the whole of that table," she says, pointing to a trestle.
(18) According to Visser, the nobility favoured trestle tables for their banquets because heavy, stationary tables were what you got in the kitchen, and were thus a touch common.
(19) Trestle Bike Park has 42 miles of lift-served trails suitable for all abilities, with smooth options for beginners and huge jumps for pros.
(20) rouentourisme.com ; +33 2 3571 8607, brasserie-paul.com deborahjenner La Cale, Blainville-sur-Mer Normandy's best bucket-sized moules frites in a crazy bohemian shack on the beach – walls daubed with huge nude paintings – where you grab a chair, share an old trestle table with friendly strangers, dig your toes in the sand and write your own order on a scrap of paper (provided) to take to the bar.