Noun

• A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
• (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.
• (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.
• (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
• (historical) Part of a woman’s dress; a stomacher.
• (botany) A tuft of flowers 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.

Exemple

• A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won’t cure the hernia.
• bearing a truss of trifles at his back
• Puts off his palmer’s weed unto his truss, which bore / The stains of ancient arms.

Verb

• (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.
• To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

Exemple

• who trussing me as eagle doth his prey

Noun

• A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
• A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
• A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
• A trestle bridge.