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/trˈɛsəl brɪdʒ/ Listen

Trestle bridge

noun

A bridge supported by trestlework.

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"Trestle bridge" Quotes from Famous Books

... Strawberry Plains just before nightfall in the short midwinter day. The Plains were a nearly level space in a curve of the river, though the village of the name was on some rough hills on the other bank at the end of the long trestle bridge. The level lands had been for some time occupied by the cavalry, and were so cut into mud-holes and defiled in every way as to be unfit for an infantry camp. A little on one side, however, was an isolated ...

— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox

... face to the north. The days of frolic were over. Continuous rains had made the Carolinas almost impassable. The march now begun was an incessant struggle with mud, swamps, and swollen rivers. A pontoon and trestle bridge three miles long was thrown across the Savannah, and miles of corduroy road were built through continuous swamps. Charleston, incessantly besieged since the war opened, where the United States had wasted more powder and iron than at all other points together, ...

— History of the United States, Volume 4 • E. Benjamin Andrews

Words linked to "Trestle bridge" : span, bridge