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trestle, n.|ˈtrɛs(ə)l|
Forms: α. 4–5 trestele, 4–6 -el, -ell(e, -ill(e, 5 -iel, -ul, 5–6 -yll(e, 6 -il, -yl, 4– trestle; 4–6 tresselle, 6–8 -ell, 7 -il, -al, (tresle), 5–9 tressel, 7–9 tressle; (6 Sc. traisle, 7 threstle, 8 trassel). β. 5–6 trystell(e, 6 -el, tristell, -il, -ill(e, tristle, trys(s)elle, trisselle. γ. 5 trostyle, 6 -ell, trustyll, 7–8 trussell, 7–9 -el, (8 trusle), 8–9 trussle, 9 trustle.
[ME. trestel, a. OF. trestel (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm., mod.F. tréteau) a transom, beam:—pop.L. *transtellum, dim. of transtrum beam: see -le 2 and cf. trest n.2 Pop.L. *transtellum would normally have given OF. trastel, but cf. treste, trest n.2 from transtrum.]
1. A support for something, consisting of a short horizontal beam or bar with diverging legs, usually two at each end; esp. one of a pair or set used to support a board so as to form a table.
13..Coer de L. 102 They sette tresteles, & layde a borde. c1400Brut clxxxvii. 206 Þis Piers of Gauaston..went into þe Kyngus tresorie..and toke þe table of golde, wiþ þe tresteles of þe same, and meny oþere riche gewelles. 1495Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 196 Mete tables in the Captayns Caban and..Trystelles for the same. 1522in Archæologia XXV. 457 A tabill & the trostells. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clvii. [cliii.] 434 These burgesses sette downe the lytter on two trestels. 1543Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 15 Payde for makynge of the tryselle..ij d. 1572in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 165 Tables and tressells. 1688R. Holme Armoury iv. xii. (Roxb.) 502/1 Then was the Body..set on a Tressell between two crosses, and couered with a large purple veluett pall. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 3 Horses, or Trussels,..to lay the Poles..on whilst they are boring. 1743in H. S. Wyndham Ann. Cov. Gard. Theatre (1906) II. 312 A Mountebank's stage and tressells. 1792A. Young Trav. France 217 In Italian inns..the bedstead is usually four forms, like trussels, set together. a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose, Trussell, a stand for a barrel. Kent. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life xviii. 195 The proverbial obstinacy of the pig rather increases than diminishes when he is laid on the tressel for execution. 1838Dickens O. Twist v, An unfinished coffin on black tressels. 1861Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xiv. 41 The Anglo-Saxon table was formed merely by placing a board upon trestles at the time of eating.
†2. A three-legged stool or seat; a tripod. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 503/1 Trostyle, tristellus, Kylw. et Dicc. tripos, Comm. 1552Huloet, Trestle, tripus,..whych hath thre fete. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. 151 These be the answers, of the Holy see, these be y⊇ Oracles of the Apostolike trestle. Margin, Apollo among y⊇ Heathen gaue..Prophecies at a threefooted boord or trestle. 1570Levins Manip. 126/28 A Tristil, tripes. 1656Blount Glossogr., Trestle (tripus), a three footed-stool, or any thing with three feet, a trevet. 1658in Phillips.
b. A three-legged frame or stand for a support; a tripod. Now dial.
1790Roy in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 165 We made shift, by the help of a long beam, and a moveable trestle by way of fulcrum for it to rest upon, to get the instrument up to the top if its own proper scaffold. 1795Ibid. LXXXV. 435 The plank and bar were supported on five of the tressels, or tripods, belonging to the Royal Society. 1828Craven Gloss., Tressel, a frame to support a scaffold, made of three feet.
3. Her. A low stool or bench used as a bearing: usually represented with three legs.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iv. ix. (1611) 213 He beareth gules, a fesse Humet, or, betweene three trestles argent... This charge..is of some..taken..for a Table. 1894Parker's Gloss. Her., Tressel, a three-legged frame to support a table, borne chiefly by branches of one family.
4. In various specific uses.
†a. A support or rest for a harquebus or other early fire-arm (see rest n.1 11 a): = trest n.2 1 b. Obs.
b. A framework consisting of upright (or more or less inclined) pieces with diagonal braces, used to support a bridge or other elevated structure.
c. and
d. See quots.e. One of the timber props or shores used to support a ship while being built. †
f. A stand or frame for candles or tapers burning in religious worship. Obs.
g. = trestle-tree (Cent. Dict.).
a.1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 95 Trestelles for hakbusses.
b.1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 438 [A bridge] 160 feet long and 22 feet wide, supported by two wooden trussels, and two stone pillars. 1811Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) VIII. 351 A certain quantity of timber for the construction of a pile engine and of a Trustle. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 183 The centres spanning the whole width of the arch were composed of eight ribs each, formed in one piece, resting upon the same number of solid wedges, supported by inclined tressels placed upon longitudinal bearers, firmly fixed to the offsets of the piers and abutments. 1900Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) Apr. 135 There is not a difficult grade or an embankment or trestle of any importance between New York and Buffalo.
c.1823Nicholson Pract. Build. iv. 231 Trussels, four-legged stools for ripping and cross⁓cutting timber upon. 1882Young Ev. Man Own Mech. §517 A trestle, or sawing-stool.
d.1839Ure Dict. Arts, etc. 378 The horse or trestle consists of a strong wooden frame... Upon the middle of this..two uprights and a strong cross beam, for supporting the thick plank upon which the skins are worked. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 93 A high trussel is frequently used, across which the leather is thrown, after undergoing any of the processes.
e.1860Longfellow Wayside Inn i. Build. Long Serpent xvi, Then they launched her from the tressels, In the ship-yard by the sea.
f.1523Will R. Broster (Somerset Ho.), ij s to make a Trisell to brenne at Masse. 1546Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 26 Payde for a trisselle and holy candelles.
5. transf. and fig.: esp. (pl.) applied to the legs.
1610B. Jonson Alch. iv. iii, He lookes in that deepe ruffe, like a head in a platter Seru'd in by a short cloake vpon two tressils. c1620T. Robinson Mary Magd. 232 Or rather cast a due-deuoted glaunce Vpon the marble tressels vnder plac't: But then her douelike feete themselues aduance. Ibid. 1471 Happy wert thou to touch y⊇ tressells bare Of thy beloued, heau'nly paramour. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, ccxciii, The Bishop wth his Colleague Arundel, Were the first Tressells vnto Henrie's Throne. 1650B. Discolliminium 16, I must not cut off her..legs.., and set her upon Tressels.
6. attrib. and Comb.: trestle-bed, a portable or movable bed supported upon trestles, as used in a hospital tent, etc.; trestle-board, a board laid upon trestles to form a table; trestle-bridge, a bridge supported upon trestles or trestlework (see 4 b); † trestle-candle: cf. 4 f; trestle-post: cf. 4 b; trestle-table, a table made of a movable board or boards laid upon trestles; trestlework, a framework composed of a series of trestles (of wood or iron) fastened together, for supporting a bridge or viaduct, esp. on a railway.
1870Disraeli Lothair lx, Princesses..might be seen by the *tressel beds.
1856C. W. Moore (title) New Masonic *Trestle-Board, adapted to the work and lectures as practised in the Lodges..of Knights Templars in the United States of America.
1867Brande & Cox Dict. Sc., etc., s.v., Two or more [trestles] are used for carrying a bridge, called a *trestle bridge. 1889G. Findlay Eng. Railway 62 A temporary trestle bridge was erected.
1559Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 90 For ij li...of *tryssille candelle.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln. 74 He has..conducted the water to a very large wheel, in troughs, upon *trussle-posts 20 feet high.
1891Cent. Dict., *Trestle-table. 1905Macm. Mag. Nov. 4 A small white bell-tent,..at its door a long trestle-table was set out with a bench on either side.
1861W. H. Russell in Times 10 July, The road led to a cypress swamp, over which the engines bustled..at a perilous rate along a high *trestlework.
Hence ˈtrestle v. trans., to place upon trestles; trestled |ˈtrɛs(ə)ld| a., provided with or supported upon trestles; ˈtrestlewise adv., in the manner of a trestle (in quot., ? upon trestles); ˈtrestling, a structure of trestles, trestlework.
1879Daily News 7 Apr. 3/3 Having disembarked and ‘*tressled’ their boats, the two crews returned to Putney.
1885B. Harte Maruja v, The black *tresselled bed.
1434E.E. Wills (1882) 102 A litil tabel peynted *trestelwise.
1887N. York Tribune 20 May (Cent.), *Trestling. |