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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In building, the timbers, etc., which form a truss.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Arch. & Engin.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.
  • noun (Arch. & Engin.) The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.
  • noun obsolete The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of truss.
  • noun architecture, engineering The timbers, etc., that form a truss.
  • noun 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.
  • noun obsolete The act of a hawk or other bird of prey in seizing its quarry and soaring into the air with it.

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