trussing, vbl. n.
(ˈtrʌsɪŋ)
[f. truss v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb truss, in various senses.
| 1340 Ayenb. 176 Ynoȝ þer is of ydelnesse aboute hire heaued, to kembe, to wesse, ine trossinge. c 1400 Destr. Troy 4653 All turnyt þaire tacle with trussyng of sailes. 1468–9 in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 11 Pro le trussyng magne campane ad thascum x d. 1540 Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading 59 For trussing of the greate bell. 1615 Latham Falconry (1633) Explan. Words, Trussing is when a Hawke raiseth a fowle aloft, and so descendeth downe with it to the ground. 1670 Eachard Cont. Clergy 75 Let your loins be girded... There must be a holy girding and trussing up for heaven. 1694 R. L'Estrange Fables clxxvii. (1714) 190 The Trussing up of Thieves is the Security of Honest Men. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 124 To frame timbers, so that their external surfaces shall keep this position, is the business of trussing. 1852 Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. iv, Not a chicken, or turkey, or duck..but looked grave when they saw her approaching,..she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing, and roasting. |
2. concr. The timber or other material forming a truss (
truss n. 6); a work or structure consisting of trusses.
| 1840 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 43/1 A plan of the trussed foot-bridge..exhibiting the trussing and cast iron frames. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 48 A platform of temporary girders..strengthened by supplementary trussing. |
3. attrib. Adapted or used for ‘trussing’, packing, or tying up (
obs. exc. Hist.), as
trussing chest,
trussing coffer,
trussing gear,
trussing mail,
trussing-needle,
trussing point,
trussing-thread; adapted for being ‘trussed’ or packed up for travelling (
obs. exc. Hist.), as
trussing bed,
trussing bedstead,
trussing chalice; used for trussing (in various senses of the verb), as (sense 1 d)
trussing-rope; (sense 10)
trussing-key,
trussing-nail; (sense 11)
trussing-hoop,
trussing-machine; (sense 12 b)
trussing-bar,
trussing-bolt,
trussing-piece,
trussing-rod; also
† trussing-bolster: see
quot., and
cf. truss n. 3 a;
† trussing-coat, a padded jacket worn under armour.
| 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 318/2 So long as it [the beam] retains this curvature the weight laid upon it must eventually press upon the *trussing-bars. |
| 1398 Will John of Gaunt in Armitage Smith Life (1904) 426 Lits faitz pur mon corps, appelles en Engleterre *trussyng beddes. 1482 Marg. Paston in P. Lett. III. 286 A litel white bedde..for a trussyng bedde. 1572 in Whitaker Hist. Craven (1812) 327 One trussing bedd for the field. 1861 Our. Eng. Home 105 Portable beds were often called ‘trussing’ beds. |
| 1534 Inv. Wardr. Kath. Arragon in Camden Misc. (1855) 34 A lytille *trussinge bedsteede..withe two lether cases to trusse it in. |
| 1910 E. R. Suffling Eng. Ch. Brasses 110 *Trussing-Bolster, a padded belt for equalising and taking the weight of the heavy cuirass. |
| 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 319/2 Through these eyes were passed vertical bars or *trussing-bolts. |
| 1440 in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 182 My *trushing challis and my highest guilt chalis. |
| 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 14 Item for a *trussyng cheste ii. s. a 1562 Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 257 Syttyng uppon a trussyng chest. 1884 Leisure Hour Apr. 233/1 Large trunks, used for general packing..were called trussing-chests. |
| 1493 Will of W. Oseney (Somerset Ho.), A *trussing coat. |
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 385 His malys..his bouges and his *trussynge cofres. 1485 in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 368, ij trussyng coffers 3s{ddd}unum magnum trussyng mayle precii 2s. |
| 1466 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 367, I payd fore viij. heles [= ells] of kanas for *trosenge gere, xx.d. |
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 108/1 *Trussing Hoop, is a large strong Hoop..first put about the Barrel staves to draw them to their compass. |
| 1621–2 in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 172, ix *trussinge keyes. |
| 1877 Knight Dict. Mech., *Trussing-machine, one for drawing the truss-hoops upon casks. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 83 Trussing machine and accumulator. 1485 *Trussyng mayle [see trussing coffer above]. |
| 1621–2 in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 172 One Hundred of *Trussinge nayles 10d. |
| 1846 A. Soyer Cookery 149 To try when done run a *trussing needle into them. |
| 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 595 *Trussing-pieces, such timbers in a roof as are in a state of compression. |
| 1548 Elyot, Strigmentum..it maie be vsed for a *trussyng pointe. |
| 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 319/1 A formula for calculating the size of the iron *trussing-rods. |
| 1420 in For. Acc. 3 Hen. VI, G/2 dorso, j haunser pro *trussynge rope. |
| 1369–72 Exch. Acc. K.R. Bundle 178 No. 16 m. 4 (P.R.O.), lxiiij lb. fili pro cordis balistarum, lij lb. *trussyngthred, lj lb. di. trenchefyll. |