0 present 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:
There he introduced the principle of trussing the framing of the roadway.
After trussing him up with adhesive tape and cutting the phone lines, they ransacked the house and made off with $25,000 worth of jewelry.
It is tied to hold its shape and sometimes stitched up with a trussing needle.
For the training and rehearsal process, many companies may rig a stick of truss independent of any other stage trussing in order to isolate the aerobatic act.
