trusser
(ˈtrʌsə(r))
[f. truss v. + -er1.]
† 1. A receptacle or appliance in or with which something is ‘trussed’; a bundle, package; a bandage. Obs.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 30 The bounche or botche..can vnneth be bounde vp with a trussar. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 17 Byndyng of males and fardelles, trussyng of coffers and trussers. |
2. One who or that which trusses, in various senses: see the verb. spec. a. One who trusses a cask.
| 1535 [see truss v. 11]. |
b. A person employed in trussing poultry, etc.
| 1857 A. Mathews Tea-Table Talk II. 96 It [sc. a chicken] had apparently made a vigorous struggle for continued existence, which struggle had evidently distorted its form out of the power of the trusser to regulate. 1903 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 8/6 Poultry.—Wanted a trusser for best-class work. 1906 Daily News 14 Dec. 7 The removal of this favourite bone by the trusser. |
c. A person employed in, or a machine for, trussing hay or straw.
| 1889 Engineer LXVII. 292 Hay and straw trussers. 1890 Univ. Exhib. Guide June 29/2 The Straw Trusser..was shown at work attached to the Steam Thrashing Machine. 1892 T. B. F. Eminson Epidemic Pneumonia at Scotter 49 The trussers..were engaged trussing the hay for sale. |
3. A plant that produces trusses of blossom: usually with qualifying adj. expressing the quality of the trusses.
| 1843 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) IV. 153 The flowers are extra⁓sized, and it is a very fine trusser. 1882 Garden 11 Mar. 160/3 This..red ground Polyanthus..is a noble trusser. |