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

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

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

Panel :: Panel (n.) A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss..

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

Eye :: Eye (n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope..

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

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

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..

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

Hip :: Hip (n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord..

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

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

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

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

Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain..

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

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

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air..

Hammer-beam :: Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam..

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