Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bridge which depends for its stability upon an application of the principle of the truss. See
bridge .
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The Yankee whittling a shingle with his jack-knife is commonly accepted as a caricature, but it is an unconscious symbolization of the plastic instinct which rises step by step to the clothes-pin, the apple-parer, the mowing-machine, the wooden truss-bridge, the clipper-ship, the carved figure-head, the Cleopatra of the World's Exhibition.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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The fitness of the construction consists, like that of the American truss-bridge, in attaining the maximum of strength with the minimum of weight.
Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900
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