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Definition of Tressels
1. tressel [n] - See also: tressel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tressels
| tresis tress tressed tressel tressels (current term) tresses tressful tressier tressiest tressing | tressour tressours tressure tressured tressures tressy trest trestle trestle-board |
Literary usage of Tressels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... what next came to their hand, Stools, tables, tressels, trenches, bedstead*,
cups, They take him for the boatswain : one liée struggling Pots, plate, ..."
2. The Growth of the English Nation by Katharine Coman, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (1894)
""Early in the morning, there are tressels placed in two rows in the street,
sometimes two rows on a side, but always one row at least. ..."
3. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1830)
"The bolts slide in sockets or carriages, resting upon the tressels c, c, and
their points being projected forward into recesses in the sides of the mast, ..."
4. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1840)
"So these two silly fellows looked first at the corpse and then at one another,
and at last one laid a bet " he would clear the priest, tressels and all. ..."
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