trussing
English edit
Verb edit
trussing
- present participle and gerund of truss
Noun edit
trussing (plural trussings)
- (architecture, engineering) The timbers, etc., that form a truss.
- 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering
- Beds (Trussing) were beds which packed into chests , for travelling ; and , considering the frequent removals , these must have been the most convenient kind .
- 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering
- The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, etc., by putting in struts, ties, etc., until it has something of the character of a truss.
- (obsolete) The act of a hawk or other bird of prey in seizing its quarry and soaring into the air with it.
Adjective edit
trussing (not comparable)
- (heraldry, of a bird) In the act of seizing (something).
- 1845, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ... Thirteenth edition. greatly improved, page 40:
- Sable, a falcon or, his wings expanded, trussing a mallard argent, on a chief of the latter, a cross botoné […]
- 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 247:
- A hawk trussing.
- 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 242:
- Examples of this will be found in the arms of Madden ["Sable, a hawk or, trussing a mallard proper, on a chief of the second a cross botonny gules"], and in the crests of Graham, Cawston, and Yerburgh.