All 5 Uses of
truss
in
Nine Stories
- The thought was forced on me that no matter how coolly or sensibly or gracefully I might one day learn to live my life, I would always at best be a visitor in a garden of enamel urinals and bedpans, with a sightless, wooden dummy-deity standing by in a marked-down rupture truss.†
Story 8
- She was changing the truss on the wooden dummy.†
Story 8 *
- As I came up to the show window, she had evidently just taken off the old truss; it was under her left arm (her right "profile" was toward me), and she was lacing up the new one on the dummy.†
Story 8
- She blushed, she dropped the removed truss, she stepped back on a stack of irrigation basins—and her feet went out from under her.†
Story 8
- Her face still flushed, she pushed her hair back with one hand, and resumed lacing up the truss on the dummy.†
Story 8
Definition:
a structural form (rigid, web-like assembly of smaller, usually triangular members) that supports a roof, bridge or other structure