Definition of "trestle-table" []

• A movable table made of boards laid on trestles, as distinguished from the dormant table which superseded it. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "There was a trestle-table next to the cooking fire; they went to it at last."
• "A trestle-table had been rigged up in the middle of the smithy and, on it, as if they bore witness to some successful parish fete, were many little heaps of money."
• "The building was lined with white glazed brick, and two straight burdens lay on a trestle-table."