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Definition of Trestleworks
1. trestlework [n] - See also: trestlework
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trestleworks
Literary usage of Trestleworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reports: Decisions of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland by Newfoundland Supreme Court (1905)
"(4) The plaintiff placed a large number of logs in the* said river above the site
of the .said bridge or trestleworks,- and ..."
2. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1899)
"... always made of stone, give one a feeling of security, which many railways in
America, with their light wooden trestleworks, do not inspire. ..."
3. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"... and the long trestleworks with which the old engineers crossed uncomfortable
swamps are still well remembered. Apart, however, from the question of its ..."
4. Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, John William Wallace (1887)
"... all tracks, trestleworks, embankments, buildings, and obstructions of every
kind erected or constructed thereon by them for railroad purposes. ..."
5. Organization and Tactics by Arthur Lockwood Wagner (1906)
"The report of its superintendent for that year states: "All the bridges and
trestleworks on the main stem and branches, with the exception of thy bridge ..."
6. Railway Corporations as Public Servants by Henry Stevens Haines (1907)
"... to the unsubstantial foundations of bridges and of trestleworks, and to the
use of cheap rails of light sections. This kind of railway construction was ..."
7. General Grant and His Campaigns by Julian K. Larke (1864)
"He had spread excitement throughout the State, destroying railroads, trestleworks,
and bridges, burning locomotives and railway stock, taking prisoners, ..."
8. The Army of the Cumberland by Henry Martyn Cist (1882)
"... Hills' trestleworks, and the heavy repairs elsewhere needed on the railroad
north of Nashville, together with having the road from Nashville to ..."
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