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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Truss :: Truss (n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Gambrel :: Gambrel (v. t.) To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.

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..

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

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..

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