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trussing 杆系 杆系 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]
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]
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