Truss

/tɹʌs/ · noun

Meaning

A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place..

Definitions by Sense

1. A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
2. (architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
3. (architecture) A triangular bracket.
4. An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
5. (obsolete) A bundle; a package.
6. (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
7. (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
8. (botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.

Example Sentences

A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.

The weight of the wrought-ironwork in each of the trusses is 460 tons, inclusive of the longitudinal and cross girders weighing 130 tons.

bearing a truss of trifles at his back

Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore / The stains of ancient arms.

Very largely haue I inueighed againſt this vice [gluttony] elſvvhere, vvherefore heere I vvill truſſe it vp more ſurcinct;^([sic – meaning succinct]) […]

who trussing me as eagle doth his prey

If they must truss me, I will repent of nothing

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• trusses
• trussing
• trussed

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