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

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

Brace :: Brace (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell..

King-post :: King-post (n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post..

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..

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

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively..

Truss :: Truss (n.) To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

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

Principal :: Principal (n.) The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing..

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

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

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss..

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..

Bracing :: Bracing (n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss..

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

Queen Truss :: Queen truss () A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.

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

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