0 to tie the arms and legs of someone together tightly and roughly with rope to prevent them from moving or escaping: --
1 a device for holding an organ of the body, especially part of the intestine, in its correct position after it has moved because of an injury --
2 a support for a roof or bridge that is usually made of stone or brick --
3 a support for a building or bridge, made of wood or steel: --
The principal rafters will be supported by steelwork, which will be hidden between two sets of trusses between the strut and the beam.
The work is treatment against death watch beetle in two of the roof trusses, involving the removal and replacement of decayed timbers.
A report on the investigation of trussed rafter roofs is due to be published in early 1979.
As a result, the economy was over-taxed, hyper-inflated, trussed up and rigidified when we took it over in 1979.
In another case a man trussed up a dog with six yards of rope and threw it into a river.
In one building a man had to erect six trusses.
She first knocks them down and then trusses them up so that they cannot even look after some of their own needs.
Symbolically, we are to be trussed alive and must be prepared to suffer a lingering death.
