All 6 Uses of
trestle
in
As I Lay Dying
- He holds the two planks on the trestle, fitted along the edges in a quarter of the finished box.†
Chpt 1 *
- Rusted, grease-fouled, its cracked chimney smeared on one side with a soaring smudge of soot, it sheds a feeble and sultry glare upon the trestles and the boards and the adjacent earth.†
Chpt 17
- Cash labors about the trestles, moving back and forth, lifting and placing the planks with long clattering reverberations in the dead air as though he were lifting and dropping them at the bottom of an invisible well, the sounds ceasing without departing, as if any movement might dislodge them from the immediate air in reverberant repetition.†
Chpt 17
- He has returned to the trestles, stooped again in the lantern's feeble glare as he gathers up his tools and wipes them on a cloth carefully and puts them into the box with its leather sling to go over the shoulder.†
Chpt 17
- We go back to the trestles and plank-ends and sit or squat.†
Chpt 20
- They sound like an interminable train crossing an endless trestle.†
Chpt 50
Definition:
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(trestle) support system for a bridge or raised road;
or: sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop