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Truss

noun
1.
(medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure.
2.
A framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure.
3.
(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent).  Synonym: corbel.
verb
(past & past part. trussed; pres. part. trussing)
1.
Tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it.
2.
Secure with or as if with ropes.  Synonyms: bind, tie down, tie up.  "Tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
3.
Support structurally.  "Trussed bridges"



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"Truss" Quotes from Famous Books



... a truss (support) that fits perfectly, and this should not cause any pain or discomfort. The truss should be worn all day, taken off at night after going to bed and put on before rising, when still lying down. If it is put on after rising a little of the gut may be in the canal and ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... Roofs. Common Trusses. The Vertical Upright Truss. The Warren Girder. The Bowstring ...
— Carpentry for Boys • J. S. Zerbe
... send Murdock the drawing of a "parallel motion for the machine," to be executed by the workmen at Soho. The truss braces and the crosses were to be executed of steel, according to the details he enclosed. "I have warmed up," he concludes, "an old idea, and can make a machine in which the pentagraph and the leading screw will all be contained in the beam, and ...
— Men of Invention and Industry • Samuel Smiles
... a valuable dwarf species of the banana from southern China. It bears a large truss of fine fruit, and is cultivated to some extent in Florida, where it endures more cold than the West India species ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
... the keyboard (c), the foot (a), the "truss" (b), which supports the keyboard, are all left entirely to the designer, the only dimensions to be regarded being the height of keyboard from the floor (2 ft. 1 in.), the top of the keys (4-1/2 in. higher), and the space (4 ft.) occupied by the keys. The ...
— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 05, May 1895 - Two Florentine Pavements • Various


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