| Truss: English to English |
| Truss (n.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes. |
| Truss (n.) A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. |
| Truss (n.) A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. |
| Truss (n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants. |
| Truss (n.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber ro |
| Truss (n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast. |
| Truss (n.) To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. |
| Truss (n.) To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. |
| Truss (n.) To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it. |
| Truss (n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces. |
| Truss (n.) To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. |