trestle board (treslbord)

A movable table-top for use in connection with trestles, mak ing a large table when required. trestle-bridge (tres'l-brij), n. A bridge in which the bed is supported upon framed sections or trestles. See trestlework. trestle-tablet (tres'l-tā"bl), n. A movable table made of boards laid on trestles, as distinguished from the dormant table which super trestletree (tres'l-trē), n. Naut., one of two seded it. tri divisions: as, Lyopomata and Arthropomata (Owen, the oldest and the preferable terms); Ecardines and Test i car dines; Pleuropygia and Apygia; Inarticulata and Articu lat a; besides the above. tret enterate (tre-ten'te-rat), a. and n. [ of or pertaining to the Tret enter at a; not clistenterate, as a bi brachiopod; aniferous. II. n. A bracl brachiopod of this order. tret is1t, a . [ME., also tretys , treitys ; tre- tis , treitis, trait is , well-made, tis, treitis, trait is , well-made, neat, long and slender, traiter , handle, trait .] Well-proportioned. traiter, handle, manage, treat: see Hire nose tretys; hir eyen greye as glas. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 152. tret is2t, tretyst, n. Old spellings of treatise. Chaucer . Tretosterninæ (trē tō-stėr-ni'nē), n . pl . [NL., Tretosternon +-inæ.] A subfamily of chely- droid tortoises, represented by the extinct ge- nus Tretosternon , with a plastron of moderate size and an inter gular shield. Tretosternon (tre-to-ster'non), n. [NL. (Owen, 1841), also Tretosternum , τρητός , perforated ( τετραίνειν , bore), + στέρνον , breast-bone.] 1. A genus of fo il chelonians of the Wealden and Purbeck referred to the family Che- lydridæ , and typical of the subfamily Tretoster- ninæ.-2. [l. c.] An animal of this genus. In strong bars of timber fixed horizontally foretrevat (trev'at), n. [Origin obscure.] and-aft, on the opposite sides of the lower weaving, a cutting-instrument for severing the masthead, to support the frame of the top and pile-threads of velvet. Also trevette . the topmast, and on the topmast-head in the trevedt, n. See trivet. same way to support the cro trees and the trevet (trev'et), n. See trivet. topgallant mast. See cut under bibb. trestlework (tres'l-werk), n. A series of trestles and connected framing, supports, etc., forming a viaduct, as for a railway. Trestlework may be of either wood or iron. It is much used in railroad IMG:content-0835.png:[blocks in formation] trevette (tre-vet'), n. Same as trevat . trevis, trevi (trev'is), n. [Also trevise , treve e, travise, trave e, etc.; ult. a reduced form of traverse, travers , acro ( traversan , a cro - beam, etc.; cf. Sp. traves , a flank, al traves , acro , athwart): see traverse .] 1. A trans- verse division, as that which separates stalls; a transom; a bar or beam. Ryt ouer thwert the chamber was there drawe A treve e thin and quhite, all of plesance. James I. of Scotland , King's Quair, iii. 9. Beyond the trevi which formed one side of the stall stood a cow, who turned her head and lowed when Jeanie came into the stable. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxvi. 2. A stall. He lay in the trevi wi' the mear [mare), and wadna come oot. Dr. John Brown , Rab and his Friends. 3. A counter or desk in a shop. [Scotch in all uses.]