truss
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Truss.
English
Etymology
From Middle English trussen, from Old French trousser. Doublet of trousse.
Pronunciation
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, page 280:
- A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.
- (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.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Aegloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Hugh Singleton, , →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender , London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, , 1586, →OCLC:
- bearing a truss of trifles at his back
- (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, , London: H L for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC:
- Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore / The stains of ancient arms.
- (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- (botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits 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.
Derived terms
Terms derived from truss (noun)
- Fink truss
- half through truss bridge
- hammer-beam truss
- Howe truss
- jack truss
- king-post truss
- K truss
- logs in truss
- main truss
- nailed truss
- parker truss
- plank truss
- polygonal truss
- queen truss
- through truss bridge
- timber truss
- truss beam
- truss beam bridge
- truss bridge
- truss framed bridge
- truss fuselage
- truss head rivet
- truss joint
- truss maker
- truss member
- truss of straw
- truss pad
- truss post
- truss rod
- Vierendeel truss
- Warren truss
- wooden truss
- X truss
Translations
bandage and belt
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framework of beams
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farming measurement
bundle; package
historical: padded jacket or dress worn under armour
historical: part of a woman's dress; a stomacher
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botany: tuft of flowers
nautical: rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast
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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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:
- who trussing me as eagle doth his prey
- 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.
- 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
- If they must truss me, I will repent of nothing
Derived terms
Translations
to secure or bind with ropes
to support
Anagrams
Latgalian
Etymology
Borrowed from Belarusian трусь (trusʹ). Cognates include Latvian trusis and Lithuanian triušis.
Pronunciation
Noun
truss m
Declension
Declension of truss (type 2 noun)
References
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 23