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

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

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

Truss :: Truss (n.) To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it..

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Cantalever :: Cantalever (n.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs..

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

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

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

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