corbel, truss
(noun) (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
truss
(noun) a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure
truss
(noun) (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure
truss
(verb) support structurally; “truss the roofs”; “trussed bridges”
truss
(verb) tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it
Source: WordNet® 3.1
truss (plural trusses)
A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
(architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
(architecture) A triangular bracket.
An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
(obsolete) A bundle; a package.
(historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
(historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
(botany) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
(nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
truss (third-person singular simple present trusses, present participle trussing, simple past and past participle trussed)
(transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.
(transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
(transitive) To support.
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.
(slang, archaic) To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.
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Source: Wiktionary
Truss, n. Etym: [OE. trusse, F. trousse, OF. also tourse; perhaps fr. L. tryrsus stalk, stem. Cf. Thyrsus, Torso, Trousers, Trousseau.]
1. A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Fabyan. Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. Spenser.
Note: A truss of hay in England is 56 lbs. of old and 60 lbs. of new hay; a truss of straw is 36 lbs.
2. 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. [Obs.] Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton.
3. (Surg.)
Definition: A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
4. (Bot.)
Definition: A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
5. (Naut.)
Definition: The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
6. (Arch. & Engin.)
Definition: 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. Truss rod, a rod which forms the tension member of a trussed beam, or a tie rod in a truss.
Truss, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trussed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trussing.] Etym: [F. trousser. See Truss, n.]
1. To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. Shak. It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. Chaucer.
2. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.] Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey. Spenser.
3. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
4. To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
5. To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.] Sir W. Scott. To truss a person or one's self, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] "Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself." J. Webster (1607).
– To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight.
– Trussed beam, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
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