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Span :: Span (v. t.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports..

Hogframe :: Hogframe (n.) A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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