TRESTLE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does trestle mean? 

• TRESTLE (noun)
  The noun TRESTLE has 2 senses:

1. a supporting tower used to support a bridge

2. sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop

  Familiarity information: TRESTLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRESTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A supporting tower used to support a bridge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("trestle" is a kind of...):

supporting tower (a tower that serves to support something)

Holonyms ("trestle" is a part of...):

bridge; span (a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("trestle" is a kind of...):

buck; horse; sawbuck; sawhorse (a framework for holding wood that is being sawed)

Holonyms ("trestle" is a part of...):

trestle table (a table supported on trestles)

 Context examples 

Alleyne bore his share and his ale-mug away with him to a retired trestle in the corner, where he could sup in peace and watch the strange scene, which was so different to those silent and well-ordered meals to which he was accustomed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sat at a table by the window, a deer-hound on one side of him and a lurcher on the other, his feet tucked away under the trestle on which he sat, and his tongue in his cheek, with the air of a man who is much perplexed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)