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UK
/tɹˈʌs/
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[ US /ˈtɹəs/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹəs/ ]
NOUN
- (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure
- a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure
- (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
VERB
- tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it
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secure with or as if with ropes
tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed
tie down the prisoners -
support structurally
truss the roofs
trussed bridges
How To Use truss In A Sentence
- Posts and rafters were hand-sawn and planed using timber from a nearby forest and, to reduce the use of wood, rafters were trussed with steel wire.
- The lamb is then sewn up, trussed, and cooked on a spit.
- The villains have them all trussed up down by the stream.
- It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
- Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent The Decameron
- Here I have trussed my chicken for the first time.
- Others are trussed up ready for roasting, with marinade flavours from lemon to garlic and herbs injected deep into their flesh.
- Without vaulting or trusses, Yemeni traditional architecture had to rely on the usable length of palm, acacia or tamarisk trunks for spans.
- trussed bridges
- Season the cavity of the duck with salt and pepper and truss with kitchen string.