Both Uses of
truss
in
Don Quixote
- The carter yoked his oxen and made Don Quixote comfortable on a truss of hay, and at his usual deliberate pace took the road the curate directed, and at the end of six days they reached Don Quixote's village, and entered it about the middle of the day, which it so happened was a Sunday, and the people were all in the plaza, through which Don Quixote's cart passed.†
Chpt 1.51-52
- 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.†
Chpt 1.51-52 *
Definition:
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(truss as in: the roof's trusses) a structural form (rigid, web-like assembly of smaller, usually triangular members) that supports a roof, bridge or other structure