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trussing


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Truss  \Truss\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Trussed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Trussing}.]  [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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trussing  \Truss"ing\,  n. 
  1.  (Arch.  &  Engin.)  The  timbers,  etc.,  which  form  a  truss, 
  taken  collectively.  --Weale. 
 
  2.  (Arch.  &  Engin.)  The  art  of  stiffening  or  bracing  a  set  of 
  timbers,  or  the  like  by  putting  in  struts,  ties,  etc., 
  till  it  has  something  of  the  character  of  a  truss. 
 
  3.  The  act  of  a  hawk,  or  other  bird  of  prey,  in  seizing  its 
  quarry,  and  soaring  with  it  into  air.  [Obs.] 




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