trestle table

noun

a table having transverse slabs or rigid frames for supports, and usually strengthened by a long stretcher.
a table composed of a movable top supported by trestles.

First recorded in 1890–95

The two boys gazed respectfully at the bare trestle table and the raised reading-desk and the picture of St. Benedict.

And there on a trestle table before us lay the body of Jarl Lodbrok, my friend, in whose side was my broken arrow.

He tugged at his neckbands and his hand fell heavily against the trestle-table.

The “old” table may have had a turned or a joined frame, or possibly may have been a homemade trestle table.

Robert was concealed behind, and Bill was standing on a trestle-table outside the tent making a speech.

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