German: from Middle High German trester ‘sediment from beer
brewing or the pressing or fermentation of grapes’ (from
trestern ‘to press grapes’), presumably a nickname for a
worthless person.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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