Definition of truss in English:

truss

noun trʌstrəs

1A framework, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, supporting a roof, bridge, or other structure.
roof trusses
Example sentencesExamples
- To provide this stability, the roof trusses were connected by pins to reinforced-concrete buttresses, or thrust blocks, at each end.
- Again, two crossbeams with camel's hump-shaped braces support the roof truss, and there is no king post.
- Using chain pulls, workers then lifted the panel and loosely connected it to attic posts, attached to roof trusses.
- We had to dismantle the roof structure without any trusses or center ring apparatus free-falling.
- An adjacent intermodal bus depot is also being rebuilt, with six roof trusses 45 ft to 108 ft long and 8 ft deep replacing piers.
Synonyms
support, buttress, joist, brace, prop, strut, stay, stanchion, shore, pier
1. 1.1 A large projection of stone or timber, typically one supporting a cornice.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda.
  Outside, the house is articulated by angled timber trusses, slatted decking and louvered sun guards.
  Structurally, it acts like a giant ribcage consisting of 25 vertically spanning timber trusses.
  While the struts appear to partially compensate for the under sizing of the joists, the king-post trusses are more difficult to rationalize.
  From the low-beamed ceiling he unlashed a hammock and tied it to a truss by the fireplace wall.
2A surgical appliance worn to support a hernia, typically a padded belt.
Example sentencesExamples
- A truss is a strap like device to prevent a hernia from bulging.
- For symptomatic hernias in younger men a truss may allow continuation of heavy work with greater comfort while awaiting operation.
- A truss is rarely used nowadays, only when surgery is not possible or needs to be delayed.
- If the hernia goes back into the abdomen easily and the patient is an elderly unfit man, a truss can be worn.
- Wearing a truss may help to relieve the discomfort of a hernia, but will not improve the condition, and in some cases can cause further damage.
Synonyms
surgical appliance, support, pad
3British historical A bundle of old hay (56 lb), new hay (60 lb), or straw (36 lb).
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1795, Parliament specified that a truss of hay should equal 56 pounds for old hay or 60 pounds (about 27.2 kilograms) for new hay.
- A truss of hay of 66 pounds is therefore equal to 28 pounds of oats, or a bushel of the best oats will go as far as one truss and a half of hay.
- But when Saturday morning came the thief got up early and hid himself under a truss of hay in the hayloft.
4A compact cluster of flowers or fruit growing on one stalk.
Example sentencesExamples
- All axillary buds were removed, and six fruits were retained per truss.
- A weekly assessment of the number of flowers per truss and trusses per plant was also made.
- Plants were topped two leaves above the fourth truss.
- Flowers were pollinated by hand and trusses pruned to four fruit.
- Once your rhododendrons have bloomed, you can help maintain flowering by deadheading their spent flower trusses.
5Sailing
A heavy metal ring securing the lower yards to a mast.
Example sentencesExamples
- The truss units have quite a sophisticated internal shape to incorporate the winch and drive units for furling and unfurling the sails.
- Once deployed, the sails would be supported by ultralightweight trusses.
- For, without the truss, the sail and its yard would be blown from the mast, so as to swing about, by the action of the wind, and the rolling of the vessel.

verb trʌstrəs

[with object]

1Tie up the wings and legs of (a chicken or other bird) before cooking.
Alfred had already trussed and stuffed the geese
Example sentencesExamples
- Our first demonstration was in trussing and preparing a fowl for the dinner table.
- Place 1/3 of the orange peels in the cavity of the duck and truss it.
- The next three steps - stuffing, trussing, and roasting - are the real keys to success, so leave plenty of time to proceed carefully.
- Here I have trussed my chicken for the first time.
- The lamb is then sewn up, trussed, and cooked on a spit.
- Others are trussed up ready for roasting, with marinade flavours from lemon to garlic and herbs injected deep into their flesh.
- She follows the clear directions for trussing the bird.
- On Christmas Eve, with presents wrapped and turkey trussed, many people in Britain settled down to watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on television.
- Having plucked and trussed these long beaked birds, leaving the remaining entrails undisturbed, pull out the stomachs and intestines (guts).
1. 1.1 Tie up (someone) with their arms at their sides.
  I found him trussed up in his cupboard
  Example sentencesExamples
  His arms were trussed with wire by his attackers.
  Eventually he was taken away with his hands trussed behind his back and a hood draped over his head.
  He trussed them up and dragged them back to the staffroom.
  Her male colleague is trussed in a straitjacket.
  He was trussed up with those chains like a sacrifice laid out for slaughter.
  It wasn't easy, especially with him trussed in chains, but by pulling and lifting, I finally got him through the opening.
  The pirates had found him cowering in a supply locker, and had trussed him up and hauled him in there.
  Unjustly imprisoned in a French island fortress, he escaped by having himself trussed up as a corpse and flung into the sea.
  Beside her, the majority of the camp's guards were gagged, trussed and unconscious.
  Nobody could believe it when he was found dead, naked and trussed up in handcuffs, blindfold and gagged.
  The weaker members were trussed up and tied to the backs of the elephants.
  We have incidents of vandalism but to have this sort of robbery with a man trussed up is terrible.
  The villains have them all trussed up down by the stream.
  He soon came to the realisation that he was trussed up and hanging upside down from what looked like a fish hook, a bigger version of that at least.
  A teenager was kidnapped, trussed up with his hands and feet bound together behind his back, a court heard.
  He said they trussed up Mr Jones and then nailed him down.
  Van and Rina sat on either side of the girl, who was trussed up with rope and cloth.
  They could easily just truss them up and steal what they want to steal.
  Synonyms
  tie up, bind, chain up
  pinion, fetter, tether, secure, fasten
2. 1.2usually be trussed up in Dress (someone) in elaborate or uncomfortable clothing.
  he was trussed up in a heavily padded suit, complete with face mask and protective gloves
2usually as adjective trussedSupport (a roof, bridge, or other structure) with a truss or trusses.
Example sentencesExamples
- Slabs, beams, and girders all make use of straight and trussed bars.
- Traditional construction of trussed roofs has these timbers built into the main walls for bearing in what is the most likely part of the wall to be wet.
- The base and armature is a trussed column of welded stainless steel tubing - a relatively nimble footing for the mass that sprouts from it.
- Unseen above the ceiling of the nave, inserted in 1670-1, is Kempley's second exceptional feature, its roof of trussed rafter construction.
- The response of engineers to this disaster was to go back to building bridges with reinforced trussed decks.
Synonyms
prop up, hold up, bolster up, support, brace, buttress, strengthen, fortify, reinforce, underpin, stay

Derivatives

trusser

noun

You will know before hand where to exactly locate the core, where to put trussers to support the structure, the area per floor that will still be available after the structure is done.
Example sentencesExamples
- These trussers are extremely lightweight, strong and long life is guaranteed.
- A quote is only accepted and processed after full payment, which I had done for the trussers by the 3rd September.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'bundle'): from Old French trusse (noun), trusser 'pack up, bind in', based on late Latin tors- 'twisted', from the verb torquere. sense 1 of the noun dates from the mid 17th century.

trousseau from Middle English:
The romantic trousseau conjures up an image of a blushing bride in flowing white or smart honeymoon outfit, but the original meaning was simply a bundle or package, and it did not acquire its modern meaning until the 1830s. The word derives from French trousse, an earlier form of which gave us truss (Middle English) ‘a supporting framework’, and ‘a surgical support for a hernia’.

Rhymes

bus, buss, concuss, cuss, fuss, Gus, huss, muss, plus, pus, Russ, sus, suss, thus, us

Definition of truss in US English:

truss

nountrəstrəs

1A framework, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, supporting a roof, bridge, or other structure.
roof trusses
Example sentencesExamples
- To provide this stability, the roof trusses were connected by pins to reinforced-concrete buttresses, or thrust blocks, at each end.
- We had to dismantle the roof structure without any trusses or center ring apparatus free-falling.
- Using chain pulls, workers then lifted the panel and loosely connected it to attic posts, attached to roof trusses.
- An adjacent intermodal bus depot is also being rebuilt, with six roof trusses 45 ft to 108 ft long and 8 ft deep replacing piers.
- Again, two crossbeams with camel's hump-shaped braces support the roof truss, and there is no king post.
Synonyms
support, buttress, joist, brace, prop, strut, stay, stanchion, shore, pier
1. 1.1 A large projection of stone or timber, typically one supporting a cornice.
  Example sentencesExamples
  From the low-beamed ceiling he unlashed a hammock and tied it to a truss by the fireplace wall.
  Outside, the house is articulated by angled timber trusses, slatted decking and louvered sun guards.
  Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda.
  Structurally, it acts like a giant ribcage consisting of 25 vertically spanning timber trusses.
  While the struts appear to partially compensate for the under sizing of the joists, the king-post trusses are more difficult to rationalize.
2A surgical appliance worn to support a hernia, typically a padded belt.
Example sentencesExamples
- A truss is a strap like device to prevent a hernia from bulging.
- If the hernia goes back into the abdomen easily and the patient is an elderly unfit man, a truss can be worn.
- A truss is rarely used nowadays, only when surgery is not possible or needs to be delayed.
- For symptomatic hernias in younger men a truss may allow continuation of heavy work with greater comfort while awaiting operation.
- Wearing a truss may help to relieve the discomfort of a hernia, but will not improve the condition, and in some cases can cause further damage.
Synonyms
surgical appliance, support, pad
3British historical A bundle of old hay (56 lb), new hay (60 lb), or straw (36 lb).
Example sentencesExamples
- A truss of hay of 66 pounds is therefore equal to 28 pounds of oats, or a bushel of the best oats will go as far as one truss and a half of hay.
- But when Saturday morning came the thief got up early and hid himself under a truss of hay in the hayloft.
- In 1795, Parliament specified that a truss of hay should equal 56 pounds for old hay or 60 pounds (about 27.2 kilograms) for new hay.
4A compact cluster of flowers or fruit growing on one stalk.
Example sentencesExamples
- Plants were topped two leaves above the fourth truss.
- Flowers were pollinated by hand and trusses pruned to four fruit.
- A weekly assessment of the number of flowers per truss and trusses per plant was also made.
- All axillary buds were removed, and six fruits were retained per truss.
- Once your rhododendrons have bloomed, you can help maintain flowering by deadheading their spent flower trusses.
5Sailing
A heavy metal ring securing a lower yard to its mast.
Example sentencesExamples
- Once deployed, the sails would be supported by ultralightweight trusses.
- The truss units have quite a sophisticated internal shape to incorporate the winch and drive units for furling and unfurling the sails.
- For, without the truss, the sail and its yard would be blown from the mast, so as to swing about, by the action of the wind, and the rolling of the vessel.

verbtrəstrəs

[with object]

1Tie up the wings and legs of (a chicken or other bird) before cooking.
Example sentencesExamples
- The lamb is then sewn up, trussed, and cooked on a spit.
- Having plucked and trussed these long beaked birds, leaving the remaining entrails undisturbed, pull out the stomachs and intestines (guts).
- Place 1/3 of the orange peels in the cavity of the duck and truss it.
- Our first demonstration was in trussing and preparing a fowl for the dinner table.
- Others are trussed up ready for roasting, with marinade flavours from lemon to garlic and herbs injected deep into their flesh.
- On Christmas Eve, with presents wrapped and turkey trussed, many people in Britain settled down to watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on television.
- She follows the clear directions for trussing the bird.
- The next three steps - stuffing, trussing, and roasting - are the real keys to success, so leave plenty of time to proceed carefully.
- Here I have trussed my chicken for the first time.
1. 1.1 Tie up (someone) with their arms at their sides.
  I found him trussed up in his closet
  Example sentencesExamples
  His arms were trussed with wire by his attackers.
  He soon came to the realisation that he was trussed up and hanging upside down from what looked like a fish hook, a bigger version of that at least.
  Eventually he was taken away with his hands trussed behind his back and a hood draped over his head.
  A teenager was kidnapped, trussed up with his hands and feet bound together behind his back, a court heard.
  Her male colleague is trussed in a straitjacket.
  The pirates had found him cowering in a supply locker, and had trussed him up and hauled him in there.
  They could easily just truss them up and steal what they want to steal.
  Beside her, the majority of the camp's guards were gagged, trussed and unconscious.
  The weaker members were trussed up and tied to the backs of the elephants.
  We have incidents of vandalism but to have this sort of robbery with a man trussed up is terrible.
  Unjustly imprisoned in a French island fortress, he escaped by having himself trussed up as a corpse and flung into the sea.
  The villains have them all trussed up down by the stream.
  Nobody could believe it when he was found dead, naked and trussed up in handcuffs, blindfold and gagged.
  It wasn't easy, especially with him trussed in chains, but by pulling and lifting, I finally got him through the opening.
  He was trussed up with those chains like a sacrifice laid out for slaughter.
  Van and Rina sat on either side of the girl, who was trussed up with rope and cloth.
  He said they trussed up Mr Jones and then nailed him down.
  He trussed them up and dragged them back to the staffroom.
  Synonyms
  tie up, bind, chain up
2. 1.2usually be trussed up in Dress (someone) in elaborate or uncomfortable clothing.
  he was trussed up in a heavily padded suit, complete with face mask and protective gloves
2usually as adjective trussedSupport (a roof, bridge, or other structure) with a truss or trusses.
Example sentencesExamples
- Slabs, beams, and girders all make use of straight and trussed bars.
- Traditional construction of trussed roofs has these timbers built into the main walls for bearing in what is the most likely part of the wall to be wet.
- The base and armature is a trussed column of welded stainless steel tubing - a relatively nimble footing for the mass that sprouts from it.
- The response of engineers to this disaster was to go back to building bridges with reinforced trussed decks.
- Unseen above the ceiling of the nave, inserted in 1670-1, is Kempley's second exceptional feature, its roof of trussed rafter construction.
Synonyms
prop up, hold up, bolster up, support, brace, buttress, strengthen, fortify, reinforce, underpin, stay

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘bundle’): from Old French trusse (noun), trusser ‘pack up, bind in’, based on late Latin tors- ‘twisted’, from the verb torquere. truss (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the mid 17th century.

单词	truss
释义	Definition of truss in English: truss noun trʌstrəs 1A framework, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, supporting a roof, bridge, or other structure. roof trusses Example sentencesExamples To provide this stability, the roof trusses were connected by pins to reinforced-concrete buttresses, or thrust blocks, at each end. Again, two crossbeams with camel's hump-shaped braces support the roof truss, and there is no king post. Using chain pulls, workers then lifted the panel and loosely connected it to attic posts, attached to roof trusses. We had to dismantle the roof structure without any trusses or center ring apparatus free-falling. An adjacent intermodal bus depot is also being rebuilt, with six roof trusses 45 ft to 108 ft long and 8 ft deep replacing piers. Synonyms support, buttress, joist, brace, prop, strut, stay, stanchion, shore, pier 1.1 A large projection of stone or timber, typically one supporting a cornice. Example sentencesExamples Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda. Outside, the house is articulated by angled timber trusses, slatted decking and louvered sun guards. Structurally, it acts like a giant ribcage consisting of 25 vertically spanning timber trusses. While the struts appear to partially compensate for the under sizing of the joists, the king-post trusses are more difficult to rationalize. From the low-beamed ceiling he unlashed a hammock and tied it to a truss by the fireplace wall. 2A surgical appliance worn to support a hernia, typically a padded belt. Example sentencesExamples A truss is a strap like device to prevent a hernia from bulging. For symptomatic hernias in younger men a truss may allow continuation of heavy work with greater comfort while awaiting operation. A truss is rarely used nowadays, only when surgery is not possible or needs to be delayed. If the hernia goes back into the abdomen easily and the patient is an elderly unfit man, a truss can be worn. Wearing a truss may help to relieve the discomfort of a hernia, but will not improve the condition, and in some cases can cause further damage. Synonyms surgical appliance, support, pad 3British historical A bundle of old hay (56 lb), new hay (60 lb), or straw (36 lb). Example sentencesExamples In 1795, Parliament specified that a truss of hay should equal 56 pounds for old hay or 60 pounds (about 27.2 kilograms) for new hay. A truss of hay of 66 pounds is therefore equal to 28 pounds of oats, or a bushel of the best oats will go as far as one truss and a half of hay. But when Saturday morning came the thief got up early and hid himself under a truss of hay in the hayloft. 4A compact cluster of flowers or fruit growing on one stalk. Example sentencesExamples All axillary buds were removed, and six fruits were retained per truss. A weekly assessment of the number of flowers per truss and trusses per plant was also made. Plants were topped two leaves above the fourth truss. Flowers were pollinated by hand and trusses pruned to four fruit. Once your rhododendrons have bloomed, you can help maintain flowering by deadheading their spent flower trusses. 5Sailing A heavy metal ring securing the lower yards to a mast. Example sentencesExamples The truss units have quite a sophisticated internal shape to incorporate the winch and drive units for furling and unfurling the sails. Once deployed, the sails would be supported by ultralightweight trusses. For, without the truss, the sail and its yard would be blown from the mast, so as to swing about, by the action of the wind, and the rolling of the vessel. verb trʌstrəs [with object] 1Tie up the wings and legs of (a chicken or other bird) before cooking. Alfred had already trussed and stuffed the geese Example sentencesExamples Our first demonstration was in trussing and preparing a fowl for the dinner table. Place 1/3 of the orange peels in the cavity of the duck and truss it. The next three steps - stuffing, trussing, and roasting - are the real keys to success, so leave plenty of time to proceed carefully. Here I have trussed my chicken for the first time. The lamb is then sewn up, trussed, and cooked on a spit. Others are trussed up ready for roasting, with marinade flavours from lemon to garlic and herbs injected deep into their flesh. She follows the clear directions for trussing the bird. On Christmas Eve, with presents wrapped and turkey trussed, many people in Britain settled down to watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on television. Having plucked and trussed these long beaked birds, leaving the remaining entrails undisturbed, pull out the stomachs and intestines (guts). 1.1 Tie up (someone) with their arms at their sides. I found him trussed up in his cupboard Example sentencesExamples His arms were trussed with wire by his attackers. Eventually he was taken away with his hands trussed behind his back and a hood draped over his head. He trussed them up and dragged them back to the staffroom. Her male colleague is trussed in a straitjacket. He was trussed up with those chains like a sacrifice laid out for slaughter. It wasn't easy, especially with him trussed in chains, but by pulling and lifting, I finally got him through the opening. The pirates had found him cowering in a supply locker, and had trussed him up and hauled him in there. Unjustly imprisoned in a French island fortress, he escaped by having himself trussed up as a corpse and flung into the sea. Beside her, the majority of the camp's guards were gagged, trussed and unconscious. Nobody could believe it when he was found dead, naked and trussed up in handcuffs, blindfold and gagged. The weaker members were trussed up and tied to the backs of the elephants. We have incidents of vandalism but to have this sort of robbery with a man trussed up is terrible. The villains have them all trussed up down by the stream. He soon came to the realisation that he was trussed up and hanging upside down from what looked like a fish hook, a bigger version of that at least. A teenager was kidnapped, trussed up with his hands and feet bound together behind his back, a court heard. He said they trussed up Mr Jones and then nailed him down. Van and Rina sat on either side of the girl, who was trussed up with rope and cloth. They could easily just truss them up and steal what they want to steal. Synonyms tie up, bind, chain up pinion, fetter, tether, secure, fasten 1.2usually be trussed up in Dress (someone) in elaborate or uncomfortable clothing. he was trussed up in a heavily padded suit, complete with face mask and protective gloves 2usually as adjective trussedSupport (a roof, bridge, or other structure) with a truss or trusses. Example sentencesExamples Slabs, beams, and girders all make use of straight and trussed bars. Traditional construction of trussed roofs has these timbers built into the main walls for bearing in what is the most likely part of the wall to be wet. The base and armature is a trussed column of welded stainless steel tubing - a relatively nimble footing for the mass that sprouts from it. Unseen above the ceiling of the nave, inserted in 1670-1, is Kempley's second exceptional feature, its roof of trussed rafter construction. The response of engineers to this disaster was to go back to building bridges with reinforced trussed decks. Synonyms prop up, hold up, bolster up, support, brace, buttress, strengthen, fortify, reinforce, underpin, stay Derivatives trusser noun You will know before hand where to exactly locate the core, where to put trussers to support the structure, the area per floor that will still be available after the structure is done. Example sentencesExamples These trussers are extremely lightweight, strong and long life is guaranteed. A quote is only accepted and processed after full payment, which I had done for the trussers by the 3rd September. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'bundle'): from Old French trusse (noun), trusser 'pack up, bind in', based on late Latin tors- 'twisted', from the verb torquere. sense 1 of the noun dates from the mid 17th century. trousseau from Middle English: The romantic trousseau conjures up an image of a blushing bride in flowing white or smart honeymoon outfit, but the original meaning was simply a bundle or package, and it did not acquire its modern meaning until the 1830s. The word derives from French trousse, an earlier form of which gave us truss (Middle English) ‘a supporting framework’, and ‘a surgical support for a hernia’. Rhymes bus, buss, concuss, cuss, fuss, Gus, huss, muss, plus, pus, Russ, sus, suss, thus, us Definition of truss in US English: truss nountrəstrəs 1A framework, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, supporting a roof, bridge, or other structure. roof trusses Example sentencesExamples To provide this stability, the roof trusses were connected by pins to reinforced-concrete buttresses, or thrust blocks, at each end. We had to dismantle the roof structure without any trusses or center ring apparatus free-falling. Using chain pulls, workers then lifted the panel and loosely connected it to attic posts, attached to roof trusses. An adjacent intermodal bus depot is also being rebuilt, with six roof trusses 45 ft to 108 ft long and 8 ft deep replacing piers. Again, two crossbeams with camel's hump-shaped braces support the roof truss, and there is no king post. Synonyms support, buttress, joist, brace, prop, strut, stay, stanchion, shore, pier 1.1 A large projection of stone or timber, typically one supporting a cornice. Example sentencesExamples From the low-beamed ceiling he unlashed a hammock and tied it to a truss by the fireplace wall. Outside, the house is articulated by angled timber trusses, slatted decking and louvered sun guards. Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda. Structurally, it acts like a giant ribcage consisting of 25 vertically spanning timber trusses. While the struts appear to partially compensate for the under sizing of the joists, the king-post trusses are more difficult to rationalize. 2A surgical appliance worn to support a hernia, typically a padded belt. Example sentencesExamples A truss is a strap like device to prevent a hernia from bulging. If the hernia goes back into the abdomen easily and the patient is an elderly unfit man, a truss can be worn. A truss is rarely used nowadays, only when surgery is not possible or needs to be delayed. For symptomatic hernias in younger men a truss may allow continuation of heavy work with greater comfort while awaiting operation. Wearing a truss may help to relieve the discomfort of a hernia, but will not improve the condition, and in some cases can cause further damage. Synonyms surgical appliance, support, pad 3British historical A bundle of old hay (56 lb), new hay (60 lb), or straw (36 lb). Example sentencesExamples A truss of hay of 66 pounds is therefore equal to 28 pounds of oats, or a bushel of the best oats will go as far as one truss and a half of hay. But when Saturday morning came the thief got up early and hid himself under a truss of hay in the hayloft. In 1795, Parliament specified that a truss of hay should equal 56 pounds for old hay or 60 pounds (about 27.2 kilograms) for new hay. 4A compact cluster of flowers or fruit growing on one stalk. Example sentencesExamples Plants were topped two leaves above the fourth truss. Flowers were pollinated by hand and trusses pruned to four fruit. A weekly assessment of the number of flowers per truss and trusses per plant was also made. All axillary buds were removed, and six fruits were retained per truss. Once your rhododendrons have bloomed, you can help maintain flowering by deadheading their spent flower trusses. 5Sailing A heavy metal ring securing a lower yard to its mast. Example sentencesExamples Once deployed, the sails would be supported by ultralightweight trusses. The truss units have quite a sophisticated internal shape to incorporate the winch and drive units for furling and unfurling the sails. For, without the truss, the sail and its yard would be blown from the mast, so as to swing about, by the action of the wind, and the rolling of the vessel. verbtrəstrəs [with object] 1Tie up the wings and legs of (a chicken or other bird) before cooking. Example sentencesExamples The lamb is then sewn up, trussed, and cooked on a spit. Having plucked and trussed these long beaked birds, leaving the remaining entrails undisturbed, pull out the stomachs and intestines (guts). Place 1/3 of the orange peels in the cavity of the duck and truss it. Our first demonstration was in trussing and preparing a fowl for the dinner table. Others are trussed up ready for roasting, with marinade flavours from lemon to garlic and herbs injected deep into their flesh. On Christmas Eve, with presents wrapped and turkey trussed, many people in Britain settled down to watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on television. She follows the clear directions for trussing the bird. The next three steps - stuffing, trussing, and roasting - are the real keys to success, so leave plenty of time to proceed carefully. Here I have trussed my chicken for the first time. 1.1 Tie up (someone) with their arms at their sides. I found him trussed up in his closet Example sentencesExamples His arms were trussed with wire by his attackers. He soon came to the realisation that he was trussed up and hanging upside down from what looked like a fish hook, a bigger version of that at least. Eventually he was taken away with his hands trussed behind his back and a hood draped over his head. A teenager was kidnapped, trussed up with his hands and feet bound together behind his back, a court heard. Her male colleague is trussed in a straitjacket. The pirates had found him cowering in a supply locker, and had trussed him up and hauled him in there. They could easily just truss them up and steal what they want to steal. Beside her, the majority of the camp's guards were gagged, trussed and unconscious. The weaker members were trussed up and tied to the backs of the elephants. We have incidents of vandalism but to have this sort of robbery with a man trussed up is terrible. Unjustly imprisoned in a French island fortress, he escaped by having himself trussed up as a corpse and flung into the sea. The villains have them all trussed up down by the stream. Nobody could believe it when he was found dead, naked and trussed up in handcuffs, blindfold and gagged. It wasn't easy, especially with him trussed in chains, but by pulling and lifting, I finally got him through the opening. He was trussed up with those chains like a sacrifice laid out for slaughter. Van and Rina sat on either side of the girl, who was trussed up with rope and cloth. He said they trussed up Mr Jones and then nailed him down. He trussed them up and dragged them back to the staffroom. Synonyms tie up, bind, chain up 1.2usually be trussed up in Dress (someone) in elaborate or uncomfortable clothing. he was trussed up in a heavily padded suit, complete with face mask and protective gloves 2usually as adjective trussedSupport (a roof, bridge, or other structure) with a truss or trusses. Example sentencesExamples Slabs, beams, and girders all make use of straight and trussed bars. Traditional construction of trussed roofs has these timbers built into the main walls for bearing in what is the most likely part of the wall to be wet. The base and armature is a trussed column of welded stainless steel tubing - a relatively nimble footing for the mass that sprouts from it. The response of engineers to this disaster was to go back to building bridges with reinforced trussed decks. Unseen above the ceiling of the nave, inserted in 1670-1, is Kempley's second exceptional feature, its roof of trussed rafter construction. Synonyms prop up, hold up, bolster up, support, brace, buttress, strengthen, fortify, reinforce, underpin, stay Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘bundle’): from Old French trusse (noun), trusser ‘pack up, bind in’, based on late Latin tors- ‘twisted’, from the verb torquere. truss (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the mid 17th century.
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