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Definition of Trestles
1. trestle [n] - See also: trestle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trestles
Literary usage of Trestles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Railroad Construction: Theory and Practice. A Textbook for the Use of by Walter Loring Webb (1900)
"Neither the cost nor the construction of iron or steel trestles will be considered
... There are two principal types of wooden trestles — pile trestles and ..."
2. Railroad Construction: Theory and Practice; a Text-book for the Use of by Walter Loring Webb (1922)
"Neither the cost nor the construction of v steel trestles will be ... Ti.ere are
two principal types of wooden trestles—pile trestles and framed trestles. ..."
3. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"Their bottoms rest against a sill, and their tops against bars known as escape-bars
or support-bars, which are in turn supported by trestles turning on ..."
4. A Treatise on Wooden Trestle Bridges According to the Present Practice on by Wolcott Cronk Foster (1891)
"Examples of trestles built on curves are given in Part II, Plates IX and ...
Double-track trestles, as a rule, are little else than two single track ..."
5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"trestles. 2204. For crossing very long depressions, trestles are as greatly ...
There are two principal types of trestles which may be employed; viz., ..."
6. A Field Manual for Railroad Engineers by James C. Nagle (1917)
"Relation of trestles to Embankments.—Low embankments involve less first cost and
smaller maintenance charges than low trestles. High embankments cost more ..."
7. Manual by American Railway Engineering Association (1921)
""RELATIVE ECONOMY OF REPAIRS AND RENEWALS OF WOODEN BRIDGES AND trestles. It is
good practice to repair wooden bridges and trestles by parts until such time ..."
8. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720: Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)
"For this reason tables with leaves, and with folding contrivances, or movable
features like those possessed by boards and trestles, by chair- tables, ..."
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