trekschuit (trekskoit)

[Also trek schuyt; D. trekschuit, boat, such as is in common use in Holland. trek-tow (trek'tō), n. [ IMG:content-0812.png:[blocks in formation] as of wood, nailed together where they cro one another, or of thin ribbons of metal, or of wire imitating this. Through the trellis of the woodwork and the leaves of the flowering shrub, he just caught a glimpse of some form within. Bulwer, What will he Do with it? vii. 21. 2. A shed, canopy, summer-house, or the like composed, or partly composed, of trellis-work. Such buildings are utilized especially for the support of growing vines.-3. In her., same as treille or lattice, 3. trellis (trel'is), v. t. [ to support or train on trellises: as, to trellis a vine. Bailey, 1727. The rich moulding of masques and flowers and fruit... shone out amid the trellised trees. J. H. Short house , Counte Eve, ix. 2. To form into trellis-work; interlace; inter weave. The red and golden vines, Piercing with their trellised lines The rough, dark-skirted wilderne . The Century , XL. 196. Shelley, Lines Written among the Euganean Hills. We pa ed out of a trellised door on to the black lacquered floor of a veranda. Trellised armor, garments of fence which are represented in early works of art as consisting of a background of leather or cloth, upon which are laid cro ing bands, Trellised Armor, 9th century. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") apparently in relief, and bo es in the square or lozenge shaped intervals in Another variety of it shows rivets or studs also at intersection of cro ing bands. It is generally a umed that the bands are of leather. trellis-work (trel'is-werk), n. 1. Same as lat tice work. The pillars support a trellis - work , which is covered with vines. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 3. IMG:content-0813.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. A modern kind of fancy work made by cutting out patterns in different materials and applying them upon a background with needlework edging, etc. The name is derived from the common use of a pattern of vines and climbing plants supported on a trellis.