Because the sapling is too weak to stand up straight on its own, we planted a trellis made of wooden bars around it to help it stand.

If you’ve ever had to make a tower out of uncooked noodles and marshmallows in school, you probably had to create a trellis of noodles to support the less stable parts of your tower.

If you look under a bridge that spans a body of water, you will often see a trellis of steel beams crisscrossing each other and supporting the weight of the bridge.

Without the interlocking trellis of steel beams that support it from the inside, the Statue of Liberty would be much more likely to fall over.

The legs of my chair were broken, but I used the broken pieces of wood to create a new framework for it, a trellis that would support the seat.