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trel⋅lis

  [trel-is]
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–noun
1. a frame or structure of latticework; lattice.
2. a framework of this kind used as a support for growing vines or plants.
3. a summerhouse, gazebo, arch, etc., made chiefly or completely of latticework.
4. Heraldry. a charge of bendlets overlying bendlets sinister, the whole being cloué at the crossings.
–verb (used with object)
5. to furnish with a trellis.
6. to enclose in a trellis.
7. to train or support on a trellis.
8. to form into or like a trellis.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME trelis < MF (n.) < LL trilīcius (for L trilīx) woven with three threads, equiv. to L tri- tri- + līci(um) thread + -us adj. suffix
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trel·lis   (trěl'ĭs)   
n.  

  1. A structure of open latticework, especially one used as a support for vines and other creeping plants.

  2. An arbor or arch made of latticework.

tr.v.   trel·lised, trel·lis·ing, trel·lis·es

  1. To provide with a trellis, especially to train (a vine) on a trellis.

  2. To make (something) in the form of a trellis.


[Middle English trelis, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *trilīcius, from Latin trilīx, trilīc-, woven with three threads : tri-, tri- + līcium, thread.]
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Word Origin & History

trellis 
c.1400, "lattice, grating," from O.Fr. trelis, originally "sackcloth," from V.L. *trilicius, from L. trilicis, gen. of trilix "having three threads, triple-twilled," from tri- three + licium "thread." Cognate with Gk. trimitos. Sense extended in O.Fr. to things "woven" of iron, etc., which brought on infl. of O.Fr. treille "vine trellis," perhaps from L. trichila "bower, arbor," which is apparently from L. triclinium "couch extending round three sides of a table" (for reclining on at meals). Meaning "lattice used to support growing vines" is from 1513.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Trellis
1. An object-oriented language from the University of Karlsruhe(?) with static type-checking and encapsulation.
2. An object-oriented application development system from DEC, based on the Trellis language. (Formerly named Owl).
E-mail: Jerry Smith
["Persistent and Shared Objects in trellis/owl", P. O'Brien et al, Proc 1986 IEEE Workshop on Object-Oriented Database Systems, IEEE, NY 1986].

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trellis

framework on which trees and climbing plants are trained. It is usually constructed of long, narrow wood or metal slats that are crisscrossed to produce square or diamond-shaped spaces.

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