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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trestle table
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Behind the familiar trestle table with its grey army blanket, sat the commanding officer flanked by two others of lesser rank.
▪ I expected them to be together when I arrived, sitting around the trestle table in the big kitchen.
▪ The Marmite and plum jam sandwiches were already curling on the trestle table under the walnut tree.
▪ We'd set up our white trestle table and lay out the syringes.
WordNet
trestle table

n. a table supported on trestles

Wikipedia
Trestle table

A trestle table is an item of furniture consisting of two or three trestle supports linked by a longitudinal cross-member over which a board or tabletop is placed. In the Middle Ages, the trestle table was often little more than loose boards over trestle legs for ease of assembly and storage. This simple, collapsible style remained the most common Western form of table until the 16th century, when the basic trestle design gave way to stronger frame-based structures such as gateleg and refectory tables. Ease of assembly and storage has made it the ideal occasional table, and it remains a popular form of dining table, as those seated are not so inconvenienced as they might be with the more usual arrangement of a fixed leg at each corner.

Usage examples of "trestle table".

Arya took her meals at a trestle table in the undercroft with Weese and his other charges, but sometimes she would be chosen to help fetch their food, and she and Hot Pie could steal a moment to talk.

Mair settled onto the trestle table, swinging her legs as Rani clambered to her feet.

Her voice trailed away as a burst of laughter drew her gaze to Lord Angus and several other men seated at the trestle table.

She was hoping the Marquess had taken leave of the place and was halfway down the last flight of stairs before she realized he was sitting at the end of the trestle table.

He frowned and studied the blankness before him on the rough wooden trestle table.

The surgeon laid Thur down on a trestle table, muttered a perfunctory-sounding spell against suppuration, and sewed die edges of the cut together with a curved needle while Thur, eyes crossed and teary, bit on a rag, his breath whistling through his teeth.

At the right end of the kitchen was a long trestle table with a bench on each side and a straight-backed chair at each end.

As the others sat at the trestle table, Ayrlyn ladled out the stew.

An oblong trestle table filled the center part of the room, with a bench tucked under each side.

Back in Broznik's office, he and Broznik were bent over a map spread out on the trestle table, pointed to a spot near the northern limit of the map.

Melissa sat at the head of the trestle table, with Sam Aylward at her right and an improvised cradle of sheaves and blankets on her left.