Truss ¹

Definition: A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.

Truss ²

Definition: A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

Truss ³

Definition: A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.

Truss ⁴

Definition: The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

Truss ⁵

Definition: 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 ⁶

Definition: To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.

Truss ⁷

Definition: To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

Truss ⁸

Definition: To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

Truss ⁹

Definition: To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.

Truss ¹⁰

Definition: To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.

truss ¹¹

Definition: (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

truss ¹²

Definition: a framework of beams forming a rigid structure (as a roof truss)

truss ¹³

Definition: (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure

truss ¹⁴

Definition: support structurally; "truss the roofs"; "trussed bridges"

truss ¹⁵

Definition: secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapes and bring them to the recycling shed"

truss ¹⁶

Definition: tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it