Chevalet
Chevalet may refer to: * Easel, French expression originally meaning "little horse", deriving from the diminutive for "cheval" (m) - "horse" * Trestle support, an improvised table or device for lifting up work pieces * Bridge (instrument), a device supporting the strings on a stringed musical instrument * Wooden horse (device), a torture device * Virginie Isabelle Chevalet, a synchronized swimmer * Émile Chevalet Émile Chevalet (1 November 1813 – 14 January 1894) was a 19th-century French man of letters, journalist, historian and librettist. Biography While he was a notary's clerk in the province, Chevalet published a novel in 1832: ''Amélie ou la ...

Wooden Horse (device)
A wooden horse, Chevalet (as it was called in Spain), Spanish donkey or cavaletto squarciapalle, is a torture device, of which there exist two variations; both inflict pain by using the subject's own weight by keeping the legs open, tied with ropes from above, while lowering down the subject. The French called this instrument the chevalet, from the French diminutive of ''cheval'', horse. Torture device The first variation of the wooden horse is a triangular device with one end of the triangle pointing upward, mounted on a sawhorse-like support. The victim is made to straddle the triangular "horse." Weights or additional restraints were often added to keep the victim from falling off. A punishment similar to this called " riding the rail" was used during the American colonial period and later. The victim was often carried through town in this predicament, often in conjunction with the punishment of tarring and feathering. The crotch could be injured and the victim left unable t ...
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Virginie Isabelle Chevalet
Virginie Isabelle Chevalet (born 1 December 1984) in Paris, France, is a synchronized swimmer athlete who represent Paraguay in this sport. Her participation at the 2010 South American Games The IX South American Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Sudamericanos''; Portuguese: ''Jogos Sul-Americanos'') was a multi-sport event held between 19 and 30 March 2010 in Medellín, Colombia. The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organi ... in Medellin has been the historical debut of Paraguay in this sport. Currently, she lives in Aregua. http://www.abc.com.py/abc/nota/96520-Chevalet-feliz-por-representar-al-pa%C3%ADs/ References 1984 births Living people Swimmers from Paris French synchronized swimmers Paraguayan synchronized swimmers People from Areguá Sportspeople from Central Department Competitors at the 2010 South American Games {{Paraguay-swimming-bio-stub ...
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Easel
An easel is an upright support used for displaying and/or fixing something resting upon it, at an angle of about 20° to the vertical. In particular, easels are traditionally used by painters to support a painting while they work on it, normally standing up, and are also sometimes used to display finished paintings. Artists' easels are still typically made of wood, in functional designs that have changed little for centuries, or even millennia, though new materials and designs are available. Easels are typically made from wood, aluminum or steel. Easel painting is a term in art history for the type of midsize painting that would have been painted on an easel, as opposed to a fresco wall painting, a large altarpiece or other piece that would have been painted resting on the floor, a small cabinet painting, or a miniature created sitting at a desk, though perhaps also on an angled support. It does not refer to the way the painting is meant to be displayed; most easel paintings are ...
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Trestle Support
In structural engineering, a trestle support (or simply trestle) is a structural element with rigid beams forming the equal sides of two parallel isosceles triangles, joined at their apices by a plank or beam. Sometimes additional rungs are stretched between the two beams. A pair of trestle legs can support one or several boards or planks, forming a trestle table or trestle desk. A network of trestle supports can serve as the framework for a trestle bridge, and a trestle of appropriate size to hold wood for sawing is known as a sawhorse. Trestle table A trestle table is a table with trestle legs. In shape and manufacture, it sometimes resembles variations of the antique field desk, which were used by officers close to the battlefield. Trestle legs come in two kinds: *Fixed trestle legs, where the angle between the legs is a fixed joint. *Folding trestle legs, where the angle is hinged, to make them more compact and portable. In the United States, a table or desk supported b ...
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Bridge (instrument)
A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air. Depending on the instrument, the bridge may be made of carved wood (violin family instruments, acoustic guitars and some jazz guitars), metal (electric guitars such as the Fender Telecaster) or other materials. The bridge supports the strings and holds them over the body of the instrument under tension. Explanation Most stringed instruments produce sound through the application of energy to the strings, which sets them into vibratory motion, creating musical sounds. The strings alone, however, produce only a faint sound because they displace only a small volume of air as they vibrate. Consequently, the sound of the strings alone requires impedance matching to the surrounding air by transmi ...
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