trellisedadj.
/ˈtrɛlɪst/ 1. Furnished with a trellis or trellis-work; formed of trellis-work; trained upon a trellis.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > like a lattice or grating > furnished with lattice-work
trellised1472
latticed1565
mashrabiyya1884
1472 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 94 Pro 4 Trillestwyndous empt. pro coquina.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iii. 10 The full mone..In throw the tirlist wyndo schane by nycht.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Trellised, crosse-barred, latticed, grated, with wood.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xvi. 28 Their trelliced vines.
1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke I. xxvii. 191 The trelliced walls covered with honeysuckles and wild roses.
1889 S. Langdon Appeal to Serpent ii. 42 Assisting the tendrils of a beautiful passion-flower to grasp the next highest bar of a trellised arch.
2.
a. Shaped or arranged like a trellis; having a pattern or markings resembling a trellis.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > like a lattice or grating
latticed1577
cancellate1661
trellised1664
cancellated1681
grated1786
treillaged1810
portcullised?1828
gridded1926
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 5 The Common Fly..The like foraminulous perforations or trelliced eyes are in all Flyes.
1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 40 Ramifications..disposed in a trellised form.
1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) I. 320 [The armour of David earl of Huntingdon] is of the species called by the contemporary Norman writers the ‘trellissed’, and consists of a cloth coat, or vest,..intersected by broad straps of leather, laid on so as to cross each other, but to leave intervening squares of the cloth, in the middle of which is a round knob or stud of steel.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 712/1 These striæ, ridges and furrows, may cross one another, and the shell is then trellised.
1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton Kenelm Chillingly I. ii. ix. 240 Its..trellised [wall-]paper.
b. Heraldry. = latticed adj. 2c.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > latticed
portcullised?1828
trellised1889
1889 C. N. Elvin Dict. Heraldry 125/2 Treille or Trillise, a Lattice, or Trellis, a pattern resembling fretty, but always nailed at each intersection; also termed Trellised cloué.
1894 in Parker's Gloss. Her. 586.
c. Physical Geography. Of a drainage pattern: resembling the pattern of a vine growing on a trellis, with tributaries flowing in a direction approximately at right angles to the stream they join and bends in the main stream being approximately right-angled.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [adjective]
autogenetic1890
superposed1894
trellised1895
antecedent1927
radial1931
pinnate1932
1895 Monogr. National Geographic Soc. No. 1. vi. 186 (caption) On the head waters of Bluestone River..the branches are adjusted to tilted hard and soft beds, forming an example of ‘trellised’ drainage.
1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xiv. 192 In all such cases, whether the network of major valleys is rectangular or rhomboidal, the drainage plan may be described as ‘trellised’.
1970 R. J. Small Study of Landforms vii. 227 The weaker strata are gradually eroded to form strike vales, separated by cuestas associated with the more resistant rocks, and are occupied by tributary streams which, with the passage of time, form an increasingly dominant component of the trellised pattern.
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