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A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.
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n.
The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.
n.
To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.
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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.
n.
The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.
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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.
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A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain.
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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.
n.
To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
v. t.
To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or unfasten; to let out; to undress.
n.
To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.
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n.
A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.
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To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
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To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
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A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
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A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
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The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
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That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss
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