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In woodworking, a trestle table is a table consisting of two or three trestle supports, often linked by a stretcher (longitudinal cross-member), over which a board or tabletop is placed. [1] In the Middle Ages , the trestle table was often little more than loose boards over trestle legs for ease of assembly and storage. [ 2 ]
The word tenon, a noun in English since the late 14th century, developed its sense of "a projection inserted to make a joint" from the Old French 'tenir' "to hold". [ 2 ] History and ancient examples
Trestle legs come in two kinds: Fixed trestle legs, where the angle between the legs is a fixed joint. Folding trestle legs, where the angle is hinged, to make them more compact and portable. In the United States, a table or desk supported by X-shaped trestles is usually called a sawbuck table.
Trestle table, a table supported by trestle support elements; Trestle (mill), part of a post mill consisting of a structure of trestle support elements; Trestle tree, a structure that is part of a traditional square rigged sailing ship's top; Trestle (heraldry), a charge in heraldry depicting a three-legged tripod traditionally used as a stool ...
Walnut trestle desk. US, 1740–80. The antique [clarification needed] trestle desk has linked trestles. It is usually very much like the writing table desk form, which offers a simple flat desktop surface with a few drawers underneath it. Unlike the writing table the trestle desk is supported by two legs instead of four, and the legs are ...
While proper names may be realized by multi-word constituents, a proper noun is word-level unit in English. Thus, Zealand, for example, is a proper noun, but New Zealand, though a proper name, is not a proper noun. [4] Unlike some common nouns, proper nouns do not typically show number contrast in English.
A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames. A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a stool or a pair of isosceles triangles joined at their apices by a plank or beam such as the support structure for a trestle table .
When used the noun is owned by another noun and describes a relation between its "owner" and a third noun. For example, one could say "the cup is the table its-surface", where "its surface" is a relational noun denoting the position of something standing on a flat surface. E.g., in Classical Nahuatl: