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Definition of Trestle bridge
1. Noun. A bridge supported by trestlework.
Definition of Trestle bridge
1. Noun. a bridge supported on a system of trestles ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trestle Bridge
Literary usage of Trestle bridge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"Over this stream we threw a pontoon- bridge, and also built one small trestle-bridge
during the night. 26th. Took up the pontoon-bridge and marched the same ..."
2. Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young (1917)
"At a corner where the Pangani swirls in towards the railway, we found another
surprise : a fine trestle bridge, unfinished, which the Germans had recently ..."
3. Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac by John Gross Barnard, William Farquhar Barry (1863)
"Report of Captain J. Spaulding, 15th NYSV, concerning the construction of the "
Upper trestle bridge," on the night of May 31st, <fec. SUB-REPORT No. 4. ..."
4. Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac by John Gross Barnard, William Farquhar Barry (1863)
"Report of Captain J. Spaulding, 15th NYSV, concerning the construction of the "Upper
trestle bridge," on the night of May 31st, &c. SUB-REPORT No. 4. ..."
5. Through Canada with a Kodak by Ishbel Gordon Aberdeen and Temair (1893)
"... perpendicular cliffs, the workmen A trestle bridge. in some cases having had
to be lowered by ropes from above in order to get at their work, ..."
6. Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge (1903)
"trestle bridge. tween the western base of the Black Hills and the eastern base
of the snowy range of the Rocky Mountains, which latter reach an elevation of ..."
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