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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Truss :: Truss (n.) A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass..

Truss :: Truss (n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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..

Untruss :: Untruss (n.) Alt. of Untrusse.

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

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