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trestle table
noun
- a table having transverse slabs or rigid frames for supports, and usually strengthened by a long stretcher.
- a table composed of a movable top supported by trestles.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trestle table1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
The two boys gazed respectfully at the bare trestle table and the raised reading-desk and the picture of St. Benedict.
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And there on a trestle table before us lay the body of Jarl Lodbrok, my friend, in whose side was my broken arrow.
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He tugged at his neckbands and his hand fell heavily against the trestle-table.
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The “old” table may have had a turned or a joined frame, or possibly may have been a homemade trestle table.
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Robert was concealed behind, and Bill was standing on a trestle-table outside the tent making a speech.
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