Word Finder - truss

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A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.

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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.

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A triangular bracket.

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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.

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A bundle; a package.

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A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.

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Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.

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A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.

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The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.

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To tie up a bird before cooking it.

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To secure or bind with ropes.

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To support.

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To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

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To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

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To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.

These roses will have simultaneously occurring blooms in each truss.

The singular Colossus bridge, built in 1812 over the Schuylkill, a kind of flat arched truss, had a span of 340 ft.

Corrugated roof, gable facing, covers 3 bay queen post truss roof.

In the right hand gable wall, part of the roof truss is visible.

If the neck is too concave (action too high ), turn the truss rod nut clockwise to remove excess relief.

Chancel arch truss distinguished by its angular wooden corbels; the roof between the trusses paneled over in wood.

Now, after encouraging dinner parties to discuss the full-stop, Lynne Truss is adapting her bestseller eats, Shoots & Leaves for children.

The earliest iron truss bridges were evolved from the plate girders which came into use all over Great Britain in the railroad age.

Two carbon fiber rods within the neck, positioned each side of the truss rod to stabilize the neck.

The viaduct itself is a unique example of a warren truss supported on wrought iron trestles.

There isn't a hogging truss to be seen on this boat.

Flagged floor; walls roughly plastered and whitewashed; roof has rafters, purlins and one tie-beam truss with struts - some old timbers.

A video with text that shows how to truss a chicken.

The neck has no truss rod, by the way.

He describes problems with a truss roof over a small hall.

There is a fourth plain truss with a single collar against the west wall.

A. u. maximus has flower-stalks 4 feet long, and full heads of flowers, one set opening while a second is rising to fill up the truss as the first crop fades.

This has few or no perfect flowers, the whole truss consisting of the more showy barren ones, which makes it much more rounded, and, together with the pure whiteness of the flowers, has led to its being popularly known as the Snowball Tree.

Keteleeri. This has the centre of the truss (which is much flatter than in V. macrocephalum) filled with fertile flowers, the outer ones only being sterile.

The truss has its outer flowers sterile, and they are 1 inch or more in diameter; both they and the smaller ones that fill the centre are white.

A hybrid between it and Hookeri called Kewense (raised at Kew in 1874) has flowers of a pale flesh color, not so large as those of Aucklandi, but more numerous in the truss.

The leaves are 5 to 7 inches long, with flowers of a rich blood-red color borne in a compact truss 4 inches or more in diameter.

Rhododendron Campylocarpum - closely allied to the preceding, and it is of similar habit, but the flowers are pale yellow, borne in a loose truss and scented like honey.

It has long, spineless shoots clothed with glossy green leaves, blooming early in June; a mass of white flowers crowded in a pyramidal truss, with a powerful scent.

It has all the vigour of the type, and its flowers cluster in an immense truss, pure white and sweetly scented.

The tension that steel strings put on the neck of the guitar is extremely strong, and steel string guitars compensate for that tension with a truss rod.

A truss rod is a steel rod that runs the length of the neck and counteracts the tension the strings place on the neck.

The truss rod on your guitar can be easily maintained by you or your local guitar repair shop.

Truss the turkey and place it in a large, racked roasting pan.

In addition, suspension bridges benefit from a deck truss, found beneath the bridge deck.

The cables, towers, anchorages, deck and deck truss all work in concert on a suspension bridge.

You can usually buy costumes at the faire, which has the advantage of seeing that the cut and color suit you and learning how to truss yourself up properly.

In the Pratt truss the struts were vertical and the ties inclined.

Sometimes a wide space is left for navigation, and the platform at this part is carried by a timber and iron truss.

For example, when studying civil engineering you will have to calculate the force distribution for different structures, such as truss bridges.

A particularly clumsy timbered truss was used to support the outshut.

Classical guitars, because they are designed to use nylon strings, don't have truss rods in their necks.

Truss rods, portals, or lattice or plate girders constitute the more definite types of wind-bracing ordinarily employed; the bracing must reach to some solid connexion at the ground.

The Howe truss of 1830 and the Pratt truss of 1844 are examples.

As railway loads increased and greater spans were demanded, the Howe truss was stiffened by timber arches on each side of each girder.

A multiple truss consists of a number of simple trusses, e.g.

The Howe truss had timber chords and a lattice of timber struts, with vertical iron ties.

A frame used to support a weight is often called a truss; the stresses on the various members of a truss can be computed for any given load with greater accuracy than the intensity of stress on the various parts of a continuous structure such as a tubular girder, or the rib of an arch.