# truss
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /tɹʌs/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌs
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English trusse, from Old French trousse, torse. Doublet of torse and trousse.

#### Noun

truss (plural trusses)
* A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
** 2008, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, chapter 4, in Professional Guide to Diseases, →ISBN, page 280:A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.
* (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.
** 1952 September, “Chepstow River Bridge Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 623:The weight of the wrought-ironwork in each of the trusses is 460 tons, inclusive of the longitudinal and cross girders weighing 130 tons.
* (architecture) A triangular bracket.
* 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.
* (obsolete) A bundle; a package.
** 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:bearing a truss of trifles at his back
* (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
** 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore / The stains of ancient arms.
* (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
* (botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
* (nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.

##### Derived terms

* Fink truss
* half through truss bridge
* hammer-beam truss
* Howe truss
* jack truss
* king-post truss
* K truss
* logs in truss
* main truss
* nailed truss
* parker truss
* plank truss
* polygonal truss
* queen truss
* through truss bridge
* timber truss
* truss beam
* truss beam bridge
* truss bridge
* truss framed bridge
* truss fuselage
* truss head rivet
* truss joint
* truss maker
* truss member
* truss of straw
* truss pad
* truss post
* truss rod
* Vierendeel truss
* Warren truss
* wooden truss
* X truss

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English trussen, from Old French trousser.

#### Verb

truss (third-person singular simple present trusses, present participle trussing, simple past and past participle trussed)
* (transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.
* (transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
* (transitive) To support.
* To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:who trussing me as eagle doth his prey
* To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
* (slang, archaic) To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.
    Synonyms: string up, tuck up; see also Thesaurus:kill by hanging
** 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:If they must truss me, I will repent of nothing

##### Derived terms

* trussed up

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Rusts, rusts, sturs

## Latgalian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Belarusian трусь (trusʹ). Cognates include Latvian trusis and Lithuanian triušis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtrusʲsʲ]
* Hyphenation: truss

### Noun

truss m
* rabbit

#### Declension
### References

* Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 23