What is "trusswork"

Usage examples of "trusswork".

The suspension spans were raised during mid-Adnacial, two weeks after the trusswork for the arches was completed.

The legs, made of bridge trusswork, descended vertically to feet as mighty as tanks, embedded in the rubble and motionless.

The ankle was encircled by a small platform from which rose, now inside the trusswork of the calf, a vertical ladder.

It was like the carcass of a whale into whose belly had been shot a grenade of compressed gas, to make it swell hideously, while crammed inside the trusswork of a bridge, until the dying body filled the entire frame.

The floor beneath them was opaque and solid, probably a single sheet of whiskered stone held up by metal stanchions and trusswork without a gram of wellstone anywhere in the mix.

Relke leaned back against his safety strap atop the trusswork of the last tower and tried to listen.

When the Chief signaled that all was secure, he stepped onto the spidery trusswork and crossed to the terminal beyond.

Frees came to a halt with his boots nearly touching the supporting trusswork of the reflector.

The spotlights arrayed along the open trusswork of the dry dock are too bright, and the only thing beyond them is the matte black expanse of space.

BioBubble became a smoking, stinking heap of blackish brown silicon-and-steel trusswork whose pristine white paint framework turned black and bubbly as hot tar.

Janice gives him no space of secrecy in which blood can gather as it did behind his fly in ninth-grade algebra sitting beside Lotty Bingaman who in raising her hand to show she had the answers showed him wisps of armpit hair and pressed the thin cotton of her blouse tighter against the elastic trusswork of her bra, so its salmon color strained through.

When he came to the door that gave access to the trusses, he unlocked it and ascended a metal staircase that let him out onto the catwalk that ran through the trusswork itself.