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noun

Strut n.

1.

The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.

2.

(Arch.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace.

3.

(Engin.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; the opposite of stay, and tie.

verb

Strut v. t. (past & past part. strutted; pres. part. strutting)

1.

To swell; to bulge out. (R.) "The bellying canvas strutted with the gale."

2.

To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. "Does he not hold up his head,... and strut in his gait?"

Strut v. t. To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.

adjective

Strut adj. Protuberant. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Strut'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Strut" Quotes from Famous Books

... told that this other person was of a cynicism hopelessly indurated. Not so with Rigby Reeves, even after Reeves alleged the other discoveries that the rector of St. Antipas had "a walk that would be a strut, by gad! if he was as short as I am"; also that he "walked like a parade," which, as expounded by Mr. Reeves, meant that his air in walking was that of one conscious always of leading a triumphal procession in his own honour; and again, that one might read in his eyes a keenly sensuous enjoyment ...

— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson

... boy—I'll give 'em leave to match him, if they can; It's fun to see him strut about, and try to be a man! The gamest, cheeriest little chap, you'd ever want to see! And then they laugh, because I think the child resembles me. The little rogue! he goes for me, like robbers for their prey; He'll turn my pockets inside out, ...

— Farm Ballads • Will Carleton

... He cannot strut, vapour, and swagger as thou dost; but why offended at this? Oh, but he has been a naughty man, and I have been righteous! sayst thou. Well, Pharisee, well, his naughtiness shall not be laid to thy charge, if thou hast chosen none of his ways. But since thou wilt yet bear me down that thou art righteous, ...

— The Pharisee And The Publican • John Bunyan

... development. From being a mere humbug, the young Indian seemed to be getting a belief in himself as something genuinely out of the common. His success in creating a party had greatly increased his conceit, and he walked with a strut, and his face was more unsettled and visionary than ever. One clear sign of his mental change was that he no longer respected his father at all, though the lonely old man looked at him often with what in one of our race would have been tenderness. Cheschapah had been secretly ...

— Red Men and White • Owen Wister

... and powdered formalism of the eighteenth century, and the outburst of new ideals which was to follow. His Ossian is a cross between Pope's Homer and Byron's Childe Harold. His heroes and heroines are not on their native heath, and are uncertain whether to mince and strut with Pope or to follow nature with Rousseau's noble savages and Saint Pierre's Paul and Virginia. The time has gone when it was heresy to cast doubt upon the genuineness of MacPherson's epic, but if any one is still doubtful, let him read it and then ...

— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch

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