trussing
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Is trussing a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture, engineering) The timbers, etc., that form a truss.Examples: "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. (obsolete) The act of a hawk or other bird of prey in seizing its quarry and soaring into the air with it.obsolete
adj (English)
1. (heraldry, of a bird) In the act of seizing (something).Examples: "Sable, a falcon or, his wings expanded, trussing a mallard argent, on a chief of the latter, a cross botoné[…]"; "A hawk trussing."; "Examples of this will be found in the arms of Madden ["Sable, a hawk or, trussing a mallard proper, on a chief of the second a cross botonny gules"], and in the crests of Graham, Cawston, and Yerburgh."not-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary