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truss
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truss as in:  the roof's trusses

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  • From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. 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.†  (source)
  • At first he's surprised to see me trussed up, then he shrugs and doesn't look at me anymore.†  (source)
  • He'll be delivered to the Baron all properly trussed like a roast for the oven.†  (source)
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  • I take the chicken, wrapped in butcher's paper and trussed with string.†  (source)
  • The bridge was to be a single twelve-hundred-foot truss span.†  (source)
  • Inside this were large pavilions of a grayish fabric that looked like plastic, supported by metal trusses in such a way that each reared up, and was airy within, and was resistant to the wind and rain.†  (source)
  • "Wait a minute, we'll make him tidy first," and Lizaveta Petrovna laid the red wobbling thing on the bed, began untrussing and trussing up the baby, lifting it up and turning it over with one finger and powdering it with something.†  (source)
  • Joff had the Antler Men trussed up naked in the square below, antlers nailed to their heads.†  (source)
  • The flesh swollen and discolored in the truss of the black stitching.†  (source)
  • No cables, no piers, no trusses.†  (source)
  • Not a chicken or turkey or duck in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.†  (source)
  • He turned: Hagrid was bound and trussed, tied to a tree nearby.†  (source)
  • But I'll have her on that plane if I have to truss her up and send her air freight.†  (source)
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Lads, you won't mind if I truss you up like a Christmas goose.  (source)
truss = tie
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