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Cantalever :: Cantalever (n.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs..

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..

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

Truss :: Truss (n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants..

Trussing :: Trussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trus.

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

Plate :: Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters..

Principal :: Principal (n.) The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing..

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..

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

Truss :: Truss (n.) 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..

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

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..

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..

Truss :: Truss (n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces..

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

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

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

Untruss :: Untruss (n.) Alt. of Untrusse.

Truss :: Truss (n.) To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it..

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