trussing Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it
    truss.
  2. verb secure with or as if with ropes
    bind; tie up; tie down; truss.
    • tie down the prisoners
    • tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed
  3. verb support structurally
    truss.
    • truss the roofs
    • trussed bridges

WordNet

Truss"ing noun
Definitions
  1. (Arch. & Engin.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. Weale.
  2. (Arch. & Engin.) The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.
  3. The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air. Obs.

Webster 1913