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Member :: Member (n.) Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss..

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) 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..

Jet :: Jet (v. i.) To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

Strut :: Strut (n.) The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..

Strut :: Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.

Saponin :: Saponin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type..

Cock :: Cock (v. i.) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing..

Tinamides :: Tinamides (n. pl.) A division of struthious birds, including the tinamous..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.

Madnep :: Madnep (n.) The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

Butting Joint :: Butting joint () A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint..

Strut :: Strut (n.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof..

Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) In a strutting manner; with a strutting gait.

Lacing :: Lacing (n.) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut..

Struvite :: Strutting () a. & n. from Strut, v..

Strut :: Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie..

Strutter :: Struthious (a.) Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe..

Strut :: Strutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stru.

Panel :: Panel (n.) A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss..

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