Trussing

Quick meaning: Trussing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of truss.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of truss.

More Meanings

1. (architecture, engineering) The timbers, etc., that form a truss.
2. (heraldry, of a bird) In the act of seizing (something).
3. The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, etc., by putting in struts, ties, etc., until it has something of the character of a truss.
4. (obsolete) The act of a hawk or other bird of prey in seizing its quarry and soaring into the air with it.

Example Sentences

A hawk trussing.

Sable, a falcon or, his wings expanded, trussing a mallard argent, on a chief of the latter, a cross botoné[…]

Examples of this will be found in the arms of Madden ["Sable, a hawk or, trussing a mallard proper, on a chief of the second a cross botonny gules"], and in the crests of Graham, Cawston, and Yerburgh.

1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering Beds (Trussing) were beds which packed into chests , for travelling ; and , considering the frequent removals , these must have been the most convenient kind .

Word Forms

• trussings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bind, tie down, tie up, corbel, intertie, tracery.

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