Scaffold vs Trestle - What's the difference?
scaffold | trestle |
A structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building.
An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
(metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
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A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
A trestle bridge.
As nouns the difference between scaffold and trestle
is that scaffold is a structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building while trestle is a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.As a verb scaffold
is to set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.scaffold
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(en noun)Derived terms
* go to the scaffold * send to the scaffold * superscaffold, superscaffoldingDerived terms
* scaffoldage * scaffolder * scaffoldingExternal links
* * *trestle
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(wikipedia trestle) (en noun)- He turned the knob, but the door was locked. Retracing his steps past a vacant lot, the young man entered a shop where a colored man was employed in varnishing a coffin, which stood on two trestles in the middle of the floor.