TRELLIS


Meaning of TRELLIS in English

/trel"is/ , n.

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.

v.t.

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.

[ 1350-1400; ME trelis trilicius (for L trilix ) woven with three threads, equiv. to L tri- TRI- + lici ( um ) thread + -us adj. suffix ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .