trussing meaning: definition, quotations

trussing

noun

Architecture, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The timbers, etc., that form a truss.

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 .

The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, etc., by putting in struts, ties, etc., until it has something of the character of a truss.

Obsolete The act of a hawk or other bird of prey in seizing its quarry and soaring into the air with it.

adj

Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Of a bird In the act of seizing (something).

Sable, a falcon or, his wings expanded, trussing a mallard argent, on a chief of the latter, a cross botoné[…]1845, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ... Thirteenth edition. greatly improved, page 40:
A hawk trussing.1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 247:

1 more example

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.1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 242: