different between trestle vs wrestle

English

Etymology

From Middle English trestel, from Old French trestel (“crossbeam”) (French tréteau).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??s?l/
• Rhymes: -?s?l

Noun

trestle (plural trestles)

1. A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
2. A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
3. A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
4. A trestle bridge.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• trestle bridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Stelter, Stetler, letters, lettres, settler, sterlet, tetrels

Middle English

Noun

trestle

1. Alternative form of trestel

English

Alternative forms

• wrassle (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English wrestlen, wrastlen (also as wraxlen), from Old English wræstlian, wraxlian (“to contend, wrestle”); corresponding to wrest +? -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wrosselje (“to contend, wrestle”), West Frisian wrakselje (“to wrestle”), Middle Dutch wrastelen (“to wrestle”), Middle Low German wrostelen (“to wrestle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.s?l/
• Rhymes: -?s?l

Noun

wrestle (plural wrestles)

1. A wrestling bout.
2. A struggle.

Translations

Verb

wrestle (third-person singular simple present wrestles, present participle wrestling, simple past and past participle wrestled)

1. (intransitive) To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest
2. (intransitive) To struggle or strive
3. (transitive) To take part in a wrestling match with someone
4. (transitive) To move or lift something with difficulty
5. (transitive) To throw a calf etc in order to brand it
6. (transitive) To fight.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lewters, Welters, swelter, welters