Definition of Trussings

1. trussing [n] - See also: trussing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trussings

trupial
trupials
truquage
truquages
truqueur
truqueurs
truscottite
trusion
truss
truss bridge
trussed
trusser
trussers
trusses
trussing
trussings
trusswork
trust
trust account
trust busting
trust company
trust corporation
trust deed
trust deeds
trust fall
trust falls
trust fund
trust funds
trust territories
trust territory

Literary usage of Trussings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Airplane Design and Construction by Ottorino Pomilio (1919)
"In Table 42 all the preceding data for the sections of the spars most stressed has been collected. In this table PL = stress due to vertical trussings. ..."

2. An Account of the Operations Carried Out for Accomplishing a Trigonometrical by William Mudge, Isaac Dalby, Thomas Colby, Great Britain Ordnance Survey (1801)
"... placed about $± inches from the ends of the rods, and i^ inch from the insertion of the trussings, are each about nine inches long, i4- broad, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench: And by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1867)
"... and she was strengthened by means of trussings and various contrivances, and everything was done that could possibly be done, at a great expense, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith, Great Britain Court of Queen's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1864)
"... and she was strengthened by means of trussings and various contrivances, and everything was done that could possibly be done, at a great expence, ..."

5. On the Stowage of Ships and Their Cargoes: With Information Regarding by Robert White Stevens (1871)
"... of trussings throughout the vessel's body. In engine and boiler space, niul for ten frames before and abaft it, the frames to be doubled in the bottom, ..."

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