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What does truss mean in British slang?
/trʌs/ uk. /trʌs/ (also truss up) to tie the arms and legs of someone together tightly and roughly with rope to prevent them from moving or escaping: Police said the couple had been trussed up and robbed before being shot.
How do you use truss in a sentence?
1 He was bearing a truss of trifles at his back. 2 Truss the chicken before you roast it. 3 The truss rod cover I don't like particularly. 4 The truss system requires a very long lead time.
How do you spell truss plural?
The plural form of truss is trusses.
What is a gimpy?
US, informal. : afflicted with a limp or a limping walk : lame sense 1 I was just back from World War II, a very senior private first class with a patch over a damaged eye and a cane to help a gimpy leg.—
What does the idiom'truss up'mean?
1. To tie up or bind someone or something tightly: The bank robbers trussed up the employees and fled with the money. The costume designer trussed us up in elaborate gowns. 2. To bind or skewer the wings or legs of some bird before cooking: The chef trussed up the fowl. I trussed the duck up and put it into the oven. 3.
What does it mean to be trussed up with rope?
verb [ T ] uk /trʌs/ us /trʌs/. › also truss up to tie the arms and legs of someone together tightly and roughly with rope to prevent them from moving or escaping: Police said the couple had been trussed up and robbed before being shot.
What does the word trussed mean in English?
Police said the couple had been trussed up and robbed before being shot. In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The replacement of the floor with ingenious trussed girders has already been mentioned.
What does it mean to truss up a Turkey?
To tie, bind, or skewer the legs of a bird before cooking it. A noun or pronoun can be used between "truss" and "up." Salt the cavity and fill it with onions, garlic, and half of a lemon before trussing the bird up. I just need to truss up the turkey before I pop it in the oven. 3. To support something with a rigid structural framework.
