trestle


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a supporting tower used to support a bridge

sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop

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At the very instant, at the first sound of his voice, to carry on the Virgilian metaphor, D'Artagnan's recruits, recognizing each his sovereign lord, discontinued their plank-fighting and trestle blows.
"And there I was, sitting, legs dangling, not knowing where I was, on a trestle or a flat, when the thing happened.
There was no furniture, save a single long dresser covered with coarse crockery, and a number of wooden benches and trestles, the legs of which sank deeply into the soft clay floor, while the only light, save that of the fire, was furnished by three torches stuck in sockets on the wall, which flickered and crackled, giving forth a strong resinous odor.
Eighty men were pounding with fist and heel the tables and trestles - eighty men, flushed with mutiny, stripped to their shirt sleeves, their knapsacks half-packed for the march to the sea, made the two-inch boards thunder again as they chanted, to a tune that Mulcahy knew well, the Sacred War Song of the Mavericks-
The mono-rail cable standard became a striking fact in urban landscape, for the most part stout iron erections rather like tapering trestles, and painted a bright bluish green.
As the train rushed along the trestles, thousands of wild birds rose screaming into the light.
THE Trestle Theatre Company will be bringing its latest production - Island - to the Sherman Theatre next month.
Constructing a "trestle" for each box and one to form the bridge between was the next step.
Two miles back we'd left the road, gone through a trestle, down a tunnel fringe-trees and wild bloom.
winemakers: Nova Cadamatre, director of winemaklng for Canandalgua Winery, owner of Trestle Thirty One in the Finger Lakes AVA and the first female U.S.
Since last winter, two temporary trestle bridges and construction staging areas have been, nearly completed on the Kittery and Portsmouth sides of the Piscataqua River.
We knew it the minute we arrived at the Upper Trestle Creek Falls trailhead in Umpqua National Forest southeast of Cottage Grove: we were in for a bit of a climb.