trussとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French trousse. Doublet of trousse.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /tɹʌs/
• 韻: -ʌs

名詞

truss (複数形 trusses)

2. A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
   • 2008, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, chapter 4, in Professional Guide to Diseases, →ISBN, page 280:

     A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.

3. (architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
4. (architecture) A triangular bracket.
5. An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
6. (obsolete) A bundle; a package.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Aegloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:

     bearing a truss of trifles at his back

7. (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, OCLC 1049089293:

     Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore / The stains of ancient arms.

8. (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
9. (botany) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
10. (nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.

派生語

動詞

truss (三人称単数 現在形 trusses, 現在分詞 trussing, 過去形および過去分詞形 trussed)

1. (transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.
2. (transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
3. (transitive) To support.
4. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book IV, canto VII, stanza 18:

     who trussing me as eagle doth his prey

5. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
6. (slang, archaic) To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

派生語

• trussed up