| Truss (truss) |
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| Truss |
| [OE. trusse, F.
trousse, OF. also tourse; perhaps fr. L. tryrsus
stalk, stem. Cf. Thyrsus, Torso, Trousers,
Trousseau.] |
A bundle; a package; as, a
truss of grass.
A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to
protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's
dress; a stomacher.
A bandage or apparatus used in
cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further
protrusion, and for other purposes.
A tuft of flowers formed at the
top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
The rope or iron used to keep the
center of a yard to the mast.
An assemblage of members
of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit
pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across
the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in
open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or
are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in
unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
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To bind or pack close] to make into a truss.
To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly;
to pounce upon.
To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder,
by means of a brace or braces.
To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl
to the body in cooking it.
To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with
up.
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