trestle

A horizontal beam or bar held up by two pairs of divergent legs and used as a support.

A framework consisting of slanted braces and horizontal crosspieces supporting a bridge or causeway.

A frame, consisting of a beam or bar fixed at each end to a pair of spreading legs, for use as a support.

Same as puncheon.

In heraldry, a low stool or bench used as a bearing: usually represented with three legs.

In civil engineering, a framework for supporting string-pieces, as of a railway, a bridge, or other elevated structure, composed of uprights with diagonal braces, and either with or without horizontal timbers below the stringers.

plural The shores or props of a ship under construction.

Same as trestletree.

In leather manufacturing, the sloping plank on which skins are laid while being curried.

An obsolete form of threshold.