trestle table

a table having transverse slabs or rigid frames for supports, and usually strengthened by a long stretcher.

a table composed of a movable top supported by trestles.

Origin of trestle table

First recorded in 1890–95

tress, tressed, tressure, tressy, trestle, trestle table, trestletree, trestlework, tret, treta yuga, tretchikoff

Robert was concealed behind, and Bill was standing on a trestle-table outside the tent making a speech.

Five Children and It |E. Nesbit
A trestle-table, on which the fish are killed and cleaned, completes the equipment of the fish-wives.

Denmark |M. Pearson Thomson
It was lying under the trestle-table, just where he dropped it before going on leave.

Now It Can Be Told |Philip Gibbs
He tugged at his neckbands and his hand fell heavily against the trestle-table.

The Nest of the Sparrowhawk |Baroness Orczy

The owner of the apartment is busily writing at a desk supported on a trestle-table.

The Care of Books |John Willis Clark