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

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..

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..

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

Bracing :: Bracing (n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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..

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..

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

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

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