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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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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