trestlework

[ tres-uh l-wurk ]

/ ˈtrɛs əlˌwɜrk /

a structural system composed of trestles.

Origin of trestlework

First recorded in 1840–50; trestle + work

The trestlework is burned in places and across these we passed the best we could.

Diary of an Enlisted Man |Lawrence Van Alstyne
Upon the trestlework were perched three boys and a man, fishing.

Historic Waterways--Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers |Reuben Gold Thwaites
How he ever did it I don't see, but he said two soldiers fell through the trestlework and were hurt and had to be left behind.

Diary of an Enlisted Man |Lawrence Van Alstyne
The haggard face of the boy looked out from the surgeon's trestlework of the fractured arm and shoulder.

Under the Law |Edwina Stanton Babcock

Men are busy rebuilding the burned out places in the trestlework and bridging the river, which is narrow here.

Diary of an Enlisted Man |Lawrence Van Alstyne

trestlework

/ (ˈtrɛsəlˌwɜːk) /

an arrangement of trestles, esp one that supports or makes a bridge