Crossword clues for trussed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Truss \Truss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trussed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trussing.] [F. trousser. See Truss, n.]
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To bind or pack close; to tie up tightly; to make into a truss.
--Shak.It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet.
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To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.]
Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey.
--Spenser. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
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To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.]
--Sir W. Scott.To truss a person or To truss one's self, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] ``Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself.''
--J. Webster (1607).To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight.
Trussed beam, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: truss)
WordNet
adj. bound or secured closely; "the guard was found trussed up with his arms and legs securely tied"; "a trussed chicken" [syn: tied]
Usage examples of "trussed".
Do you suppose spending a night in the Willoughby Hall cellars, trussed up like a Christmas goose, has made the man at all talkative?
She had been known to leave him trussed to the bed and gagged for several hours while she entertained friends to tea in the next room.
Nobody in his right mind wants to be trussed up like a spring chicken for six hours.
Janet tried to think of something clever to say, but there was no escaping the fact that she was lying on her bed, in nothing but her underwear, trussed like a de boned turkey.
The Presence Chamber was crowded with courtiers, and the warm summer air was heavy with the odours of musky perfume, burning wax and overdressed, trussed and overheated bodies.
They hung helplessly in their bonds like trussed pigs on the back of a market cart.
The Dutch officers were trussed hand and foot, and laid out in a row on the deck of the main cabin.
Both hands were trussed behind his back and the sergeant had another rope round his neck.
When the carnage was over there were only nine, trussed ankle and wrist and lying belly down in the sand like porkers in the marketplace.
Call me when you have all the prisoners trussed up in the waist of the ship.
Alleyne gazed upon the scene--the portly velvet-clad official the knot of hard-faced archers with their hands to the bridles of their horses, the thief with his arms trussed back and his doublet turned down upon his shoulders.
Then, ere the sun was on the slope of the heavens, they had deftly trussed up again, and were swinging merrily upon their way, two hundred feet moving like two.
Straddling her body he moved forwards until his trussed penis hung long and heavy over her face, with his bell-end pointing straight down at her mouth.
Sardonically, David had told her that he had trussed and plugged her that way because he wanted to make sure that she was relaxed and comfortable while she watched Aztor at work.
Looking past the mirror, she saw that every Disciple and his slave had their eyes firmly fixed on her trussed and tortured figure.