truss

See also: Truss and trúss

English

A truss bridge on the Crowsnest Highway in BC.

WOTD – 19 June 2009

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /tɹʌs/

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• Rhymes: -ʌs

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Etymology 1

From Middle English trusse, from Old French trousse, torse. Doublet of torse and trousse.

Noun

truss (plural trusses)

2. A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
   • 2008, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, chapter 4, in Professional Guide to Diseases, →ISBN, page 280:

     A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.

3. (architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
   • 1952 September, “Chepstow River Bridge Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 623:

     The weight of the wrought-ironwork in each of the trusses is 460 tons, inclusive of the longitudinal and cross girders weighing 130 tons.

4. (architecture) A triangular bracket.
5. An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
6. (obsolete) A bundle; a package.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

     bearing a truss of trifles at his back

7. (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC:

     Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore / The stains of ancient arms.

8. (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
9. (botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
10. (nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.

Derived terms

Terms derived from truss (noun)

• Fink truss
• half through truss bridge
• hammer-beam truss
• Howe truss
• jack truss
• king-post truss
• K truss
• logs in truss
• main truss
• nailed truss
• parker truss
• plank truss
• polygonal truss
• queen truss
• through truss bridge
• timber truss
• truss beam
• truss beam bridge
• truss bridge
• truss framed bridge
• truss fuselage
• truss head rivet
• truss joint
• truss maker
• truss member
• truss of straw
• truss pad
• truss post
• truss rod
• Vierendeel truss
• Warren truss
• wooden truss
• X truss

 

Translations

bandage and belt

• Bulgarian: банда́ж (bg) m (bandáž)
• Catalan: braguer (ca) m
• Czech: kýlní pás m
• Danish: brokbind n
• Finnish: tyrävyö (fi)
• French: bandage herniaire (fr) m
• German: Bruchband (de) n
• Ido: bandajo (io)
• Italian: cinto (it) m, cinto erniario m
• Korean: 탈장대 (taljangdae)
• Plautdietsch: Bruchbaunt m
• Russian: банда́ж (ru) m (bandáž)
• Scottish Gaelic: crios-taice m
• Serbo-Croatian: pojas za kilu m, trbušni pojas m, suspenzor za kilu m
• Spanish: faja para hernia f
• Turkish: fıtık bağı, fıtık kemeri, fıtık korsesi

framework of beams

• Bulgarian: фе́рма (bg) f (férma), подпорна конструкция f (podporna konstrukcija)
• Catalan: gelosia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桁架 (zh) (héngjià)

• Czech: příhradový /nosník m
• Finnish: ristikkorakenne, ansas (fi)
• French: treillis (fr), structure triangulée
• German: Fachwerkträger m, Fachwerk (de) n, Dachstuhl (de) m, Dachwerk m, Dachtragwerk n, Traverse f, Binder (de) m, Sprengwerk n, Hängewerk n, Gebälk (de) n, Ständerwerk n, Dachbalken (de) m, Träger (de) m, Dachträger (de) m, Dachgebälk n
• Hungarian: tartószerkezet (hu)
• Indonesian: rangka batang
• Ingrian: kuuritsa
• Italian: struttura reticolare f
• Norwegian: fagverk n
• Ottoman Turkish: چاتی (çatı), مقص (makas)
• Portuguese: treliça (pt) f
• Russian: (стропи́льная) фе́рма (ru) n (férma)
• Spanish: cercha (es) f

architecture: triangular bracket

• Finnish: ansas (fi)
• Norwegian: fagverk n

farming measurement

• Bulgarian: наръч (bg) m (narǎč)
• German: Garbe (de) f
• Scottish Gaelic: muillean m (56 lb)

bundle; package

• Bulgarian: сноп (bg) m (snop), грозд (bg) (grozd)
• Finnish: nippu (fi)
• German: Garbe (de) f, Bündel (de) n, Bund (de) m, Büschel (de) n, Binde (de) f, Fessel (de) f, Strohbund (de) m, Rispe (de) f

historical: padded jacket or dress worn under armour

historical: part of a woman's dress; a stomacher

• German: Leibbinde (de) f, Bauchbinde f
• Serbo-Croatian: plastron (sh) m

botany: tuft of flowers

• Bulgarian: кичур (bg) (kičur)
• German: Büschel (de) n, Schopf (de) m, Puschel f, Schüppel m, Horst (de) m
• Hungarian: buga (hu)
• Russian: гроздь (ru) f (grozdʹ)

nautical: rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast

• Finnish: rakki (fi)
• Irish: coiléar m, coiléar giordáin m

Etymology 2

From Middle English trussen, from Old French trousser.

Verb

truss (third-person singular simple present trusses, present participle trussing, simple past and past participle trussed)

1. (transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.
2. (transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
3. (transitive) To support.
4. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

     who trussing me as eagle doth his prey

5. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
6. (slang, archaic) To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.

   Synonyms: string up, tuck up; see also Thesaurus:kill by hanging

   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     If they must truss me, I will repent of nothing

Derived terms

• trussed up

Translations

to tie up a bird before cooking it

• Dutch: opbinden (nl)
• Finnish: sitoa (fi)

to secure or bind with ropes

• Bulgarian: връзвам (bg) (vrǎzvam)
• Czech: svázat (cs)
• Finnish: sitoa (fi), köyttää (fi)
• Maori: whakapiki, tūpiki, whakarorerore
• Scottish Gaelic: ceangail, trus

to support

• Bulgarian: поддържам (bg) (poddǎržam), укрепвам (bg) (ukrepvam)
• Czech: podepřít
• Finnish: tukea (fi)

Anagrams

• Rusts, rusts, sturs

Latgalian

Truss.

Etymology

Borrowed from Belarusian трусь (trusʹ). Cognates include Latvian trusis and Lithuanian triušis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrusʲsʲ]
• Hyphenation: truss

Noun

truss m

1. rabbit

Declension

Declension of truss (type 2 noun)

	singular	plural
nominative	truss	truši
genitive	truša	trušu
dative	trušam	trušim
accusative	trusi	trušus
instrumental	trusi	trušim
locative	trusī	trušūs
vocative	trus	truši

References

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 23