'Trussing' definitions:
Definition of 'Trussing'
From: GCIDE
- Trussing \Truss"ing\, n.
- 1. (Arch. & Engin.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. --Weale. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Arch. & Engin.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trussing'
From: GCIDE
- Truss \Truss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trussed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trussing.] [F. trousser. See Truss, n.]
- 1. To bind or pack close; to tie up tightly; to make into a truss. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- To truss a person or To truss one's self, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] "Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself." --J. Webster (1607).
- To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight.
- Trussed beam, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord. [1913 Webster]