Verb She stuffed and trussed the duck. after stuffing the turkey, the chef quickly trussed it so the forcemeat wouldn't fall out during roasting
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Construction of the new U.S. 60 Cumberland River Bridge in western Kentucky will take a big step forward this week as crews plan to float a 700-foot steel truss up the river and install it, officials said. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022 Le Mec and his people knock Rory out with tranquilizers and truss her up by her wings to harvest her feathers. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021 Watching Julia truss a goose or dress a salad niçoise felt like a salve. Julie Cohen, Variety, 5 Sep. 2021 Markets are unbowed with their gleaming-eyed oyster shuckers, their butchers taking five minutes to truss each quail, their oozing Camembert cheeses prompting debate about ripeness, their rum baba cakes with little syringes to inject the rum.New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021 Being trussed up like this did not lend itself to much mobility. David Canfield, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2020 At the other end is the caricature, butt of flabby jokes, trussed in Las Vegas gaud, voice prostituted to a huge orchestra.San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019 In 1936, the wrists and ankles of a thirty-five-year-old interior decorator were found trussed with lamp cord and radio wire, with two neckties and a towel twisted around his neck. Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019 High-end Roman houses had only small glass windows, so the interiors were enlivened by frescoes—often of food or animals destined for the table, like the villa’s painting of ducks and trussed deer. Peter Saenger, WSJ, 21 June 2019
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There will be lane restrictions on the existing Cumberland River Bridge while the truss is being installed. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022 To complement the shelving system and delicate tie-rod truss, the Katches brought the rest of the space, which serves as a dining room and versatile living room, down to human scale. Laura Raskin, ELLE Decor, 10 Aug. 2022 In 2003, before a Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera concert, a stage truss collapsed and landed five feet from the organ console. Laura Preston, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022 The architects unified the existing structure’s rooflines and materiality, added new dormers and a tie-rod truss to dramatize a double-height living room, and conceived a new glass-and-steel sunroom. Laura Raskin, ELLE Decor, 10 Aug. 2022 Travis Scott interrupted his New York performance Monday (July 4) during The Day Party at The Coney Art Walls to address his fans after three individuals were seen standing and sitting on a metal truss above the audience area. Darlene Aderoju, Billboard, 5 July 2022 In late July and early August, several dozen timber framers and students gathered to fashion the truss. Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022 The space station was originally equipped with four solar array wings, two on each side of a long truss stretching the length of a football field. William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2022 In the world of gardening, a truss is simply a stem that holds tomatoes.Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English to pack, load, bind, from Anglo-French trusser, trousser, from Vulgar Latin *torsare, from *torsus twisted — more at torsade