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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Trussing (0.02676 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Trussing.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: truss gading-gading, gelung
English → English (WordNet) Definition: truss truss n 1: (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure 2: a framework of beams forming a rigid structure (as a roof truss) 3: (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) [syn: corbel] v 1: tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it 2: secure with or as if with ropes; “tie down the prisoners”; “tie up the old newspapes and bring them to the recycling shed” [syn: tie down, tie up, bind] 3: support structurally; “truss the roofs”; “trussed bridges”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Trussing Truss \Truss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trussed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trussing.] [F. trousser. See Truss, n.] 1. To bind or pack close; to tie up tightly; to make into a truss. --Shak. [1913 Webster] It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces. [1913 Webster] 4. To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it. [1913 Webster] 5. To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] To truss a person or To truss one's self, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] “Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself.” --J. Webster (1607). To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight. Trussed beam, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord. [1913 Webster] Trussing \Truss"ing\, n. 1. (Arch. & Engin.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. --Weale. [1913 Webster] 2. (Arch. & Engin.) 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. [1913 Webster] 3. The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

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