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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRUSS'ING, ppr. Packing or binding closely.

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1840 1. the members forming a truss 2. the trusses and framework of a structure

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Truss Truss, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trussed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trussing.] [F. trousser. See Truss, n.] 1. To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. --Shak. It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. --Chaucer. 2. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.] Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey. --Spenser. 3. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces. 4. To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it. 5. To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.] --Sir W. Scott. To truss a person or one's self, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] ``Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself.'' --J. Webster (1607). To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight. Trussed beam, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trussing Truss"ing, n. 1. (Arch. & Engin.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. --Weale. 2. (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. 3. The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air. [Obs.]