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    1. I've rigged cradles on ships and truss work to get it there


    2. I can jump off and truss the little critter up


    3. chicken and truss the bird, tucking its wing tips under and tying the drumsticks


    4. Fill the chicken with cooked and cooled stuffing, truss the bird and place in clay


    5. The metal in the central truss structure and the beams that hold the modules to it has started to crystallize


    6. Tiny cracks have developed and the truss itself is warped


    7. The third blew open the truss that connected the propulsion system to the rest of the ship and the drive unit crumpled into the body of the ship


    8. Treatment is usually by surgery although there is a truss to prevent the bulge becoming worse in the past


    9. The truss is seldom used in present times


    10. ceiling were hexagonal truss shapes about the same size

    11. said, pointing at the metal truss roof and walls of the fire hall


    12. It is named the "Burr Truss" design and Theodore Burr owns the patent


    13. It was now early December, and the already harvested stalks, sad and frail, appeared to woefully truss the heavy, gray sky


    14. The carter yoked his oxen and made Don Quixote comfortable on a truss of hay, and at his usual


    15. They all flocked to see what was in the cart, and when they recognised their townsman they were filled with amazement, and a boy ran off to bring the news to his housekeeper and his niece that their master and uncle had come back all lean and yellow and stretched on a truss of hay on an ox-cart


    16. It’s an elegant steel truss cantilever, named for a natural bridge that was formed by a major landslide approximately three hundred years ago that had temporarily dammed the Columbia River


    17. The truss over her shoulder was stained dark with Betadine, and whatever the IV meds were doing for her physical pain, they sure weren’t helping her mental state—she still looked ghost white and scared as hell


    18. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them the order of battle


    19. "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even for the flies which his dog eats!"


    20. Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw

    21. Madeleine seated on his truss of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers


    22. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes


    23. I may add, as an instance of this fact, and as a striking case of correlation, that in many pelargoniums the two upper petals in the central flower of the truss often lose their patches of darker colour; and when this occurs, the adherent nectary is quite aborted, the central flower thus becoming peloric or regular


    24. “Friend, truss your coat, and try the water; carry you the Queen to shore, unless you fear the burden


    25. Clean, stuff and truss a twelve-pound turkey, that, when cooked, may rest on the wings level on the platter, the drumsticks close to the body


    26. Clean and truss two guinea chickens; place on a bed of sliced, uncooked carrots, potatoes and celery, arranged in the bottom of a casserole—(a large bean-pot serves as well)


    1. Together with the suited American, the two guards lifted and carried me, trussed like a roasting bird, and carefully laid my body in a metal box underneath the flat bed back of the lorry


    2. They trussed him up with


    3. Saldon and Halon were trussed up and secured to the creaking mast


    4. He was truly trussed and bound to the tree


    5. Karla was trussed up with tape in one of his armchairs


    6. She wore a rose in her hair, which was trussed into a wispy knot at the top of her head


    7. And then, after the maddened animal was exhausted and firmly trussed


    8. The black lady was trussed up alike a chicken


    9. Trussed up with twine and with a scythe blade at her throat, Bryony was in no mood for vegetable puns


    10. The scarecrow left Bryony trussed up on the ground, and shuffled towards Ma with his scythe raised

    11. “The Captain won’t win,” said Zach, having scrambled over to where Bryony lay trussed up


    12. Three metres doesn"t sound far but believe me, when you"re trussed it"s a bloody long way


    13. I was five metres from my best friend who was trussed up ready to have his neck snapped by two blokes who had already attempted to murder me, and I was doing nothing!


    14. Sitting on the ground in front of us facing the studio, Scumble"s bulk would conceal his prisoner"s trussed body from the view of anyone who might come round the corner


    15. After cutting him a bit they trussed him up painfully and he thought he was going to have to watch my execution


    16. Reginald was lying trussed on a cot, gagged and motionless, but alive


    17. She entered the apartment carrying the shiny box and looked at a trussed up


    18. Securely trussed, he was disposed of in the same manner


    19. They were trussed with annealed wire at the wrists, ankles and neck


    20. In a single motion the intruders pounced on the frozen women and in seconds had them trussed

    21. They could tell by his tone that contemptuousness was creeping back into his mien and though fat, sloppy and securely trussed, Jack Pappadoupoulis wasn‘t to be taken lightly


    22. Elmer pulled the trussed rear leg up exposing the spotted scrotum


    23. As they entered the kitchen, and before the officers could ask what was going on, the trussed man on the floor started swearing and shouting “That bitch nearly killed me!” Seeing Jessica hiding behind the police he added, “Don’t let her fool you, she’s a mad woman! She nearly ripped my balls off the other day, just over a small parking incident!”


    24. “Or you’ll have a poor girl trussed up and whipped?”


    25. Harald and the pilot lay at her feet, trussed like chickens and menaced by the dog


    26. A creature was skewered on the slowly turning spire; a relatively thin torso, with longish legs and arms trussed in to prevent their dangling into the flames licking up from below


    27. But best of all, there was Thomas, trussed up safely in a net, looking very annoyed


    28. Still trussed up in the net, he hung between two long poles which the goblins carried on their shoulders


    29. They hadn’t trussed his feet, but it didn’t matter, as the squirrel kept pulling him off balance


    30. His wings had still been trussed with string as he hopped through the forest, not daring to slow his pace

    31. “It was not weak! It was inescapable, Oaktree! You were trussed; the barrel was too high to climb out


    32. Her wrists were still red and raw after spending hours bound and trussed in the filthy rope netting


    33. bandages and plaster, in a sling, and her knee trussed in the same manner


    34. then his feet were trussed


    35. Now it was the humans turn to be trussed


    36. Talaric stepped inside to see Sparky’s mirrored self trussed up in a chair and gagged, with a pair of earphones on his head


    37. Darren was trussed on his knees in front of the hearth


    38. trussed up her petticoat and shift, in a wisp to her waist, where being


    39. The husband had a heavy basket of vegetables on his back; the wife balanced on her shoulder a long pole bearing several live chickens, trussed; the boy had a heavy ham on his shoulder, and the girl a crock that probably contained salted butter


    40. Alan was in front of him, dealing with the trussed chickens

    41. Ralph put Tilly, trussed like a chicken, on the floor


    42. When he had thus largely pleased himself with this branch of dalliance and delight, he trussed up her petticoat and shift, in a wisp to her waist, where being tucked in, she stood fairly naked on every side; a blush at this overspread her lovely face, and her eyes downcast to the ground, seemed to be for quarter, when she had so great a right to triumph in all the treasures of youth and beauty that she now so victoriously displayed


    43. When their breakfast was over, and their packs all trussed up again, it was after ten o'clock, and the day was beginning to turn fine and hot


    44. The two hobbits trussed their small packs, put them on ready for


    45. Small dug-out boats came to them, bearing rich fruits and piles of trussed up fowls


    46. The chicken is trussed; the breast is covered with strips of bacon and put into a deep, thick saucepan


    1. With Glenelle's eyes he could see thru the trusses of the ship to the broad face of the planet below


    2. The bark ridges running up the trunk were as thick as Brice, and though leafless and rotting, the tree reached the apex of the tower's interior, nearly bursting through the arched rib shaped trusses well over twenty stories up


    3. Anyway, Hamp was hired and he knew what he was doing for he graded the pad off perfect then took his backhoe and dug out the footings for each of the several supports for the trusses


    4. The trusses that comprised the ceiling structure were


    5. Far above, massive carved wooden trusses leaped effortlessly across the shadowy gulf - a sight to render contemplative even the most jaundiced eye


    6. Immediately forward of the drive units the space frame consists of four large trusses providing separation between the propulsion unit and the aft end of the cargo bays from the old cargo ship


    7. Reuben commented that the ship probably had an “exoskeleton” instead of central supporting trusses like the Schweitzer did


    8. Nestled between the three reactors attached to the freighter modules was a fourth fusion reactor attached to the center trusses that ran the length of the ship


    9. Nestled between the trusses, the passenger ship portion would be gutted to provide common galleys, schools and the kinds of support that would be more efficient centralized rather than distributed among three freighter modules which were lacking in amenities


    10. Too hard a landing could bend the trusses, and Elizabeth will never move again

    11. One of the issues with the Class Five was that after years of transitions from hyper to standard drive, the metal in the trusses that ran the length of the ship deteriorated


    12. The horizontal members of the steel roof trusses were about 2


    13. trusses resembling gold sheaves


    14. Looking around him quickly, McDonnel then ran to the superstructures of the bridge’s entrance, climbing up the steel trusses until he stood on one of the horizontal beams linking both side structures


    15. He took two minutes to spread out his large flag and solidly tie its corners to the trusses, so that any plane overflying the bridge couldn’t miss the flag, then climbed down


    16. The trusses were about eight inches thick and four inches


    17. Stacey had wedged himself up into one of several large cavities between the tall metal trusses


    18. His house from top to bottom is placarded with inscriptions written in large hand, round hand, printed hand: "Vichy, Seltzer, Barege waters, blood purifiers, Raspail patent medicine, Arabian racahout, Darcet lozenges, Regnault paste, trusses, baths, hygienic chocolate," etc


    19. CLAIRE’S HOME in Mill Valley is a dream of a house: wood-paneled inside with trusses and beams in the cathedral ceiling, stone floors throughout the open space, and a two-story fireplace


    20. So were the trusses and roof boards

    21. The bridge groaned again, sounding like its metal trusses were crying out in pain


    22. On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, two of whom were municipal guardsmen


    23. The roof of the building is to be covered with slate [preferably red], laid on terra-cotta and supported by iron trusses and beams; the iron-work to be protected by a fireproof covering


    24. The tower roofs contemplate granite, lapped and jointed so as to be weatherproof, laid on iron beams and supported by iron trusses


    25. The size of columns and piers, and the weights imposed upon them, the thrusts of arches and trusses, their proper abutments and ties and other constructional problems have been calculated with a sufficient degree of accuracy to determine the feasibility of the execution of the design according to the drawings


    1. The audacity in trussing him like a pig and tormenting him rankled the pompous fat man much more than any fatuous threats


    2. Williams walked over and began trussing the deer up with a coil of rope he produced from his jacket


    3. trussing up my shift as high as it would go, took his turn to feast his eyes


    4. She was, on the Contrary, so juicy and plump that she seem’d bursting thro’ her tight Stays, e’en as the Flesh of the delicious roast Capon was bursting thro’ its sewn Trussing


    5. After trussing the bird rub it with lemon so it will keep of good color; now cover the breast with thin slices of bacon (these can be tied on)


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    Synonyms for "truss"

    corbel truss bind tie down tie up strengthen brace fortify improve hold bear supporter prop support beam strut reinforcement tie strap lash fasten tether secure bundle

    "truss" definitions

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


    a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure


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


    tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it


    secure with or as if with ropes


    support structurally