truss

truss is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.
2. noun. A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
3. noun. A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
4. noun. A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
5. noun. The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
6. noun. An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
7. noun. To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.
8. noun. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
9. noun. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
10. noun. To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
11. noun. To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.
12. noun. (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

    Synonyms: corbel

13. noun. a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure
14. noun. (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure
15. verb. support structurally

    "truss the roofs"

    "trussed bridges"

16. verb. secure with or as if with ropes

    "tie down the prisoners"

    "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"

    Synonyms: bind

17. verb. tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it

Synonyms

corbel, bind

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in truss:

rusts

Common word forms

trussed, trusser, trusses, trussing

Words from these letters

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