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Trestlework

noun
1.
A supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g..





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"Trestlework" Quotes from Famous Books



... the timber and the pipe with a grouting of hydraulic cement. This was applied to the railroad bridge connecting the mainland with Galveston Island (experiment No. 12), and so well did it seem to succeed at first that it was proposed to extend the process to railroad trestlework, to fencing, to supports for houses, and to telegraph poles. But after a while the earthenware pipes were displaced and broken, the process was given up, and Galveston bridge is ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 • Various


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