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a structural form (rigid, web-like assembly of smaller — usually triangular members) that supports a roof, bridge or other structure- The same trusses carry the weight of the roof and the ceiling.
- They began mobilizing my liver, cutting away its ligaments and trusses.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- The flesh swollen and discolored in the truss of the black stitching.Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
- At which point I would hardly be needed, for, without guards, the captain and crew could quickly free themselves and truss up the pirates.Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
- The unhappy man, lying flat on a truss of straw, was dying; his body was covered with dark patches, he had long ago lost consciousness.Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- I went in, and it was half full o' trusses of straw, and there was some hay too.George Eliot -- Adam Bede
- Strongboar had grown furious at that, vowing bloody vengeance on the heads of any men who would truss up warriors to die like suckling pigs.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- He read the second story level of signs across the street, Joltz Nature System, Honest John Trusses, No Toothless Days.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- The monk in back was moaning now, struggling against his trusses.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- I was thinking of ordering an electric truss from Petersburg-cash on delivery-I saw it in an advertisement.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- Workers using the traveler could lift and position two trusses at a time.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- "I pray thee truss my points," said he to Wamba, "and thou shalt have a cup of sack for thy labour."Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- On the table was a pile of trusses, yellow wash-leather hoops tangled together.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- Cordelia turns to the back pages of the catalogue, where the pictures are in gray and black and there are crutches and trusses and prosthetic devices.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- Last year he helped our people to bring in the straw; he carried as many as six trusses at once, he is so strong.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- He fished around again for the keys to Ted's truck, then jogged out to the garage and gathered some bungee cords and wire, which he used to truss Ted up.Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
- In the next column, a fat black advertisement proclaimed that Dr. Hustletter's Trusses were the Medical Triumph of the Age.Ouida Sebestyen -- Words by Heart
- Some Sileni of the throng sat on benches and hay-trusses by the wall; and one of them recognized her.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The bridge was to be a single twelve-hundred-foot truss span.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- But I'll have her on that plane if I have to truss her up and send her air freight.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
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