trevisses

Updated: June 17, 2025

Torn from their destined niche unworthy meed Of knightly counsel or heroic deed! The autumn wind piped through empty aisles, in which the remains of stakes and trevisses of rough-hewn timber, as well as a quantity of scattered hay and trampled straw, seemed to intimate that the hallowed precincts had been, upon some late emergency, made the quarters of a troop of horse.

Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock; or, the Cavalier