Trestle

tres'l, n. A movable frame or support for anything, consisting of legs secured to a top-piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and cro -beams, for supporting a bridge, etc.; the frame of a table. [OF. trestel, a trestle, traste, a cro beam, Olt. trasto, a bench of a galley, transom, beam of a house, L. = transtUlum, a little cro beamAiim. fr. transtrum E. transom, q. v.] — Trestle-board. A board used by draughtsmen, etc.. for drawing designs upon, so called because formerly supported by trestles. fret, tret, n. {Com.) An allowance to purchasers for Sim, cube, full moon, cow, oil TRIAD waste or refuse matter, of 4 pounds on every 104 pounds of weight, after tare deducted. [Norm. F. trett, F. traite, draught, L. tract a, fern, of p. p. of trahere, to draw: see Trace.] Trevet, Trey. See under Triad. Triable. See under Try.