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Member :: Member (n.) Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss..

Supportful :: Supporter (n.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.

Oueen-post :: Oueen-post (n.) One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post..

Untrusser :: Untrusser (n.) One who untrussed persons for the purpose of flogging them; a public whipper.

Portal :: Portal (n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces..

Kingtruss :: Kingtruss () A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc..

Suspensory :: Suspensory (n.) That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss.

Truss :: Truss (n.) To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.

Trussed :: Trussed (imp. & p. p.) of Trus.

Truss :: Truss (n.) To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.

Truss :: Truss (n.) 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..

Chord :: Chord (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension..

Kilt :: Kilt (v. t.) To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes..

Pedestal :: Pedestal (n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier..

Untruss :: Untruss (v. t.) To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or unfasten; to let out; to undress..

Butting Joint :: Butting joint () A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint..

Truss :: Truss (n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

Trussing :: Trussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trus.

Truss :: Truss (n.) 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..

Plate :: Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters..

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