TRUSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does truss mean? 

• TRUSS (noun)
  The noun TRUSS has 3 senses:

1. (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure

2. a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure

3. (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

  Familiarity information: TRUSS used as a noun is uncommon.

• TRUSS (verb)
  The verb TRUSS has 3 senses:

1. tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it

2. secure with or as if with ropes

3. support structurally

  Familiarity information: TRUSS used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUSS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("truss" is a kind of...):

bandage; patch (a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("truss" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Holonyms ("truss" is a part of...):

truss bridge (a bridge supported by trusses)

Derivation:

truss (support structurally)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

corbel; truss

Hypernyms ("truss" is a kind of...):

bracket; wall bracket (a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf))

Domain category:

architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)

• TRUSS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they truss    ... he / she / it trusses   
Past simple: trussed   
Past participle: trussed   
-ing form: trussing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "truss" is one way to...):

bind; tie (fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Secure with or as if with ropes

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bind; tie down; tie up; truss

Context example:

tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed

Hypernyms (to "truss" is one way to...):

confine; constrain; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement)

"Truss" entails doing...:

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "truss"):

chain up (tie up with chains)

faggot; faggot up; fagot (bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot)

faggot; fagot (fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them)

hog-tie (tie together somebody's limbs)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Support structurally

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

trussed bridges

Hypernyms (to "truss" is one way to...):

hold; hold up; support; sustain (be the physical support of; carry the weight of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

truss (a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure)

 Context examples 

I see that your squire's eyes are starting from his head like a trussed crab.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl and a pudding; I sitting at table, not unlike a trussed bird myself, and moving my arms with considerable difficulty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then, ere the sun was on the slope of the heavens, they had deftly trussed up again, and were swinging merrily upon their way, two hundred feet moving like two.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But this is the letter which I am to take; and since the platter is clean it is time that we trussed up and were afoot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen him ere now, with monk's gown trussed to his knees, over his sandals in blood in the fore-front of the battle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the corner a very fat man was lying all a-sprawl upon a truss, snoring stertorously, and evidently in the last stage of drunkenness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Trusses of straw had been thrown down along the walls, and reclining on them were some twenty or thirty archers, all of the Company, their steel caps and jacks thrown off, their tunics open and their great limbs sprawling upon the clay floor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)