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Definition of Trestle table
1. Noun. A table supported on trestles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trestle Table
Literary usage of Trestle table
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720: Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)
"... A SMALL trestle table, with leaves and butterfly brackets. In the possession
of Mr. Dwight Blaney. An unique piece. It combines two much sought for ..."
2. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1915)
"1) the lady is having a meal with the aged man and the young one whom we saw on
the first and second; the trestle- table is of the usual mediaeval type, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1885)
"responded her husband, bustling obediently forward, and proceeding, with great
politeness, to bestow the guests around a long trestle table which groaned ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Meals were taken in the great main hall, which was furnished with a dressoir (buffet),
trestle table, forms for seats (no chairs except for the lord and ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"A little higher up the bank stood a small white bell-tent, and at Its door a long
trestle- table was set out with a bench on either side. ..."
6. A Complete Manual of Canon Law by Oswald Joseph Reichel (1896)
"trestle-table and is called the holy table (M) or the throne (M). Western rule
requires it to be a tomb (16o) or otherwise a chest containing the remains of ..."
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