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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

Supportful :: Supporter (n.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.

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..

Untruss :: Untruss (v. t.) To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or unfasten; to let out; to undress..

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

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

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..

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

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

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.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style..

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

Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain..

Pedestal :: Pedestal (n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier..

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