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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..

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

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..

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

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.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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