0 past simple and past participle of truss
1 to tie the arms and legs of someone together tightly and roughly with rope to prevent them from moving or escaping:
The replacement of the floor with ingenious trussed girders has already been mentioned.
Indeed, the essence of the trussed framework is that short members may be assembled to create a large-span structure.
These trussed partitions would themselves have been quite capable of spanning the 40ft but were removed in the nineteenth century leaving the floor to span alone.
Internal walls forming upper rooms were framed as trussed partitions whose bottom chords intersected and connected with the timbers of the floor frame.
Timber trusses were in use by that date for roof structures, but no early trussed bridges have survived.
She sold poultry and eggs and plucked her fowls and sold them trussed and got a very good price.
This bird is then prepared and the head taken off, and, the bird having been nicely trussed, it is sent round and delivered.
Symbolically, we are to be trussed alive and must be prepared to suffer a lingering death.
