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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 ]
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 ...
A refectory table is a highly elongated table [1] used originally for dining in monasteries during Medieval times. In the Late Middle Ages, the table gradually became a banqueting or feasting table in castles and other noble residences. The original table manufacture was by hand and created of oak or walnut; the design is based on a trestle style.
Drum tables are round tables introduced for writing, with drawers around the platform. End tables are small tables typically placed beside couches or armchairs. Often lamps will be placed on an end table. Overbed tables are narrow rectangular tables whose top is designed for use above the bed, especially for hospital patients. [12]
In woodworking, a saw-horse or sawhorse (saw-buck, trestle, buck) [1] is a trestle structure used to support a board or plank for sawing. A pair of sawhorses can support a plank, forming a scaffold. [2] In certain circles, it is also known as a mule and a short sawhorse is known as a pony.
Basically, the modern trestle desk improv is a plank of wood set on two trestles. It is eminently portable, and eminently practical, when care is taken to provide stable trestles. The advent of the cubicle desk created a market for independent desk elements of all kinds, such as short, rolling filing cabinets.
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 .