trestle.

A braced frame used to support a platform, tabletop, or elevated structure.

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Words that belong together

• wooden trestle
• railway trestle

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The carpenter laid the planks across a wooden trestle.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular trestle; plural trestles. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.