As a result of the necessary movability, most tables were simple trestle tables, although small round tables made from joinery reappeared during the 15th century and onward.
Once everyone was changed, the ladies would provide tea amongst the now somewhat soggy straw, on trestle tables.
Casks of ale from different brewers, numbering in the hundreds, are placed on stillage behind rows of trestle tables.
Usually the items are then unpacked onto folding trestle tables, a blanket or tarpaulin, or the ground.
Spectators who had climbed onto trestle tables to get a better view of the track found themselves in the direct path of the lethal debris.
Tables in the great hall would tend to be long trestle tables with benches.
The restless teenager to the right of the fortune-teller's tent, the dozing matron by the trestle tables, compete with onstage action for perceptual prominence.
Basically, a modern trestle table is a plank of wood set on two trestles.