trestle table

noun

: a table supported on trestles

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But what is likely not from Germany is the practice of laying out all the presents on long trestle tables set up in the main hall. — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 24 Dec. 2025 The most common size is 8 feet by 5 feet, which fits large grills with some space on each side to move around or for a trestle table to hold food and other essentials. — Bestreviews, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024 Enormous Australian mosquitoes circled around him in his very bare office, a basement room equipped with a trestle table next to the laundry room. — Choire Sicha, Vulture, 11 July 2024 An Italian brass and opaline pendant from the 1940s hangs above a Swedish pine trestle table from the late 18th century. — Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for trestle table

Word History

First Known Use

1883, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of trestle table was in 1883

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“Trestle table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trestle%20table. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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