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Queen Truss :: Queen truss () A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.

Kingtruss :: Kingtruss () A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc..

Truss :: Truss (n.) To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

Kilt :: Kilt (v. t.) To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes..

Truss :: Truss (n.) A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass..

Trussed :: Trussed (imp. & p. p.) of Trus.

Untrusser :: Untrusser (n.) One who untrussed persons for the purpose of flogging them; a public whipper.

Truss :: Truss (n.) To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.

Hammer-beam :: Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam..

Gambrel :: Gambrel (v. t.) To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.

Eye :: Eye (n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope..

Portal :: Portal (n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces..

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air..

Truss :: Truss (n.) To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.

Hip :: Hip (n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord..

Chord :: Chord (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension..

Truss :: Truss (n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

Hogframe :: Hogframe (n.) A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback..

Brace :: Brace (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell..

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively..

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