trussing

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The latter lay down on the trussing-bed -- the medieval sofa -- and turned her face away towards the wall.

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  1. In building, the timbers, etc., which form a truss.
  2. Diagonal trussing in ship-building, a particular method of binding a vessel internally or externally, or both, by means of a series of wooden or iron braces laid diagonally on the framing from one end of the ship to the other.

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  • They were tied to prevent their flying away, doubled up with their knees close to their ears; and for the trussing of them the black pirate had cut a rope into nine equal pieces. —  Peter Pan
  • Were the killing and the trussing-up and the hiding away of the body done as a continuous operation or was there an interval? —  Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 13: 1944
  • It consisted of a single arch of 130 feet span, the segment of a very large circle, calculated to resist the tendency of the abutments to slide inwards, which had been a defect of the Coalbrookdale bridge; the flat arch being itself sustained and strengthened by an outer ribbed one on each side, springing lower than the former and also rising higher, somewhat after the manner of timber-trussing. —  The Life of Thomas Telford
  • The latter lay down on the trussing-bed--the medieval sofa--and turned her face away towards the wall. —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
  • Both these contingencies are obviated by trussing, which renders the beam stiff enough to place its load on the walls in the direction of gravity, and strong enough to carry it safely. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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