Crossword clues for tressel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trestle \Tres"tle\, n. [OF. trestel, tresteay, F. tr['e]teau; probably from L. transtillum a little crossbeam, dim. of transtrum a crossbeam. Cf. Transom.] [Written also tressel.]
A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
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The frame of a table.
Trestle board, a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles.
Trestle bridge. See under Bridge, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see trestle.
Wiktionary
n. (dated form of trestle English)
Wikipedia
Tressel may refer to:
Usage examples of "tressel".
As Tressel clambered into the back seat, Miriam sprung to life, viciously kicking him in the stomach, he was knocked backwards through the still open door.
The girl pulled the door closed as Tressel writhed in agony outside until he became still.
The tressel tables were being set up as the dinner hour approached and still the two women did not return to the hall.
There was also a tent made of double canvas weighing fifty pounds, and two light folding tressel beds weighing fifteen pounds apiece.
In one corner was an old tressel bed, and at its head a tattered curtain, which rustled in the wind, and accounted for our late panic.
Onward again by trains which threaded the awful snow solitude and lone peaks of the Rocky Mountains, through great cities which had been waving forest solitudes but yesterday, over prairie-oceans where the far horizon showed nor hill nor tree--naught but endless flower-strewn plains, as league after league stretched beneath the tireless swift-speeding iron steed, over billowy waving seas of giant grasses and lavish herbage products of the boundless generosity of nature in the far west, over tressel bridges which trembled and vibrated as the long train wound its oscillating way across shuddering abysses.
They are both sitting on a sort of tressel or armed bench, one of the arms and legs and one of the tassels of the cushion appear on the left side of Sir Thomas.
He gave a quick motion with one hand, and the pillows, the pig, the crate of eggs and the entire tressel table with its meal disappeared into air.
They crossed to a door that opened into a cavernous dining hall with a huge tressel table and high-backed chairs cushioned in scarlet silk.
The argument was resolved when Questor used the magic to reheat it where it cooled in its kettle, and the kettle exploded in flames setting fire to the whole of the tressel table and the linen service set upon it.
The brick viaducts which carry this arch the Spree again and again in their course through and around the city, but with never quite such spectacular effects as our spidery tressels, achieve.
Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.
House of Deposit, a low-roofed chamber under a chapel, contained tressels for every kind and condition of the dead.
Out burst a deluge of liquor so fierce-- so impetuous--so overwhelming--that the room was flooded from wall to wall--the loaded table was overturned--the tressels were thrown upon their backs--the tub of punch into the fire-place--and the ladies into hysterics.