trussing

trussing

1. present participle of truss

trussing (plural trussings)

1. (architecture, engineering) The timbers, etc., that form a truss.
   • 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering

     Beds (Trussing) were beds which packed into chests , for travelling ; and , considering the frequent removals , these must have been the most convenient kind .

2. The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, etc., by putting in struts, ties, etc., until it has something of the character of a truss.
3. (obsolete) The act of a hawk or other bird of prey in seizing its quarry and soaring into the air with it.

trussing (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, of a bird) In the act of seizing (something).
   • 1845, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ... Thirteenth edition. greatly improved, page 40:

     Sable, a falcon or, his wings expanded, trussing a mallard argent, on a chief of the latter, a cross botoné […]

   • 1894, Henry Gough; James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 247:

     A hawk trussing.

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