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Webster 1913 Edition
Truss
Truss
,Noun.
1.
A bundle; a package;
as, a
. truss
of grassFabyan.
Bearing a
truss
of trifles at his back. Spenser.
☞ 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
The stains of ancient arms.
truss
, which boreThe stains of ancient arms.
Drayton.
3.
(Surg.)
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.)
A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
5.
(Naut.)
The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
6.
(Arch. & Engin.)
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.
1.
To bind or pack close; to tie up tightly; 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 To truss 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Truss
TRUSS
, n.1.
In a general sense, a bundle; as a truss of hay or straw. A truss of hay in England is half a hundred. A truss of straw is of different weights in different places.2.
In surgery, a bandage or apparatus used in cases of ruptures, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.3.
Among botanists, a truss or bunch is a tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk or stem of certain plants.4.
In navigation, a machine to pull a lower yard close to its mast and retain it firmly in that position.5.
[See Trous.]TRUSS
,Verb.
T.
1.
To skewer; to make fast.To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight.
Definition 2024
truss
truss
See also: trúss
English
Noun
truss (plural trusses)
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- 2008, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, chapter 4, in Professional Guide to Diseases, ISBN 0781778999, page 280:
- A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.
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- (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.
- Spenser
- bearing a truss of trifles at his back
- Spenser
- (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- Drayton
- Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore / The stains of ancient arms.
- Drayton
- (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.
Translations
bandage and belt
framework of beams
farming measurement
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bundle; package
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historical: padded jacket or dress worn under armour
botany: tuft of flowers
nautical: rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast
Verb
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.
- Spenser
- who trussing me as eagle doth his prey
- Spenser
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
Translations
to secure or bind with ropes
Derived terms
- trussed up