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Tress

A long lock or ringlet of hair.

Truss

A truss is an assembly of beams or other elements that creates a rigid structure.In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object". A "two-force member" is a structural component where force is applied to only two points.

Tress

(Archaic) A plait or braid of hair.

Truss

(Medicine) A supportive device, usually a pad with a belt, worn to prevent enlargement of a hernia or the return of a reduced hernia.

Tress

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
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Truss

A rigid framework, as of wooden beams or metal bars, designed to support a structure, such as a roof.

Tress

A long lock of hair

Truss

An architectural bracket.

Tress

(by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

Truss

Something gathered into a bundle; a pack.
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Tress

To braid or knot hair.

Truss

(Nautical) An iron fitting by which a lower yard is secured to a mast.

Tress

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
Her yellow hair was braided in a tress.
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare.

Truss

(Botany) A compact cluster of flowers at the end of a stalk.

Tress

Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

Truss

To tie up or bind tightly.

Tress

A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

Truss

To bind or skewer the wings or legs of (a fowl) before cooking.

Truss

To support or brace with a truss.

Truss

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

Truss

(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.

Truss

(architecture) A triangular bracket.

Truss

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.

Truss

(obsolete) A bundle; a package.

Truss

(historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.

Truss

(historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.

Truss

(botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.

Truss

(nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.

Truss

(transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.

Truss

(transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.

Truss

(transitive) To support.

Truss

To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

Truss

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

Truss

To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.

Truss

A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.
Bearing a truss of trifles at his back.

Truss

A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which boreThe stains of ancient arms.

Truss

A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

Truss

A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.

Truss

The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

Truss

An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.

Truss

To bind or pack close; to tie up tightly; to make into a truss.
It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet.

Truss

To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey.

Truss

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

Truss

To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.

Truss

To execute by hanging; to hang; - usually with up.

Truss

(medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure

Truss

A framework of beams forming a rigid structure (as a roof truss)

Truss

(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

Truss

Tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it

Truss

Secure with or as if with ropes;
Tie down the prisoners
Tie up the old newspapes and bring them to the recycling shed

Truss

Support structurally;
Truss the roofs
Trussed bridges

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