Trussed

Word TRUSSED
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Definitions and meanings of "Trussed"

What do we mean by trussed?

To tie up a bird before cooking it.

To secure or bind with ropes.

To support.

To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.

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The word "trussed" in example sentences

There were so many of the one party, and so few of the other, that if he were once fairly "trussed," he affirmed that not a man among the faithful would dare to budge an inch. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

"Rumour has it the police found him trussed up like a turkey with its feathers plucked out, but alive and safely tucked away at home, if a little dazed around the edges." ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the fall of 2003, Abu Omar was taken to another prison; it was here that he was trussed in the crucifixion position and raped by the guards. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

Only the lean little Mary, trussed for the cooking, staring through her wide eyes of fear, saw the boy pick Jerry up by his tied legs and carry him out and away from the booty of meat of which she was part. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a theater-going era when anything with assumed marquee value is trussed up for consumer consumption, it's a treat to recall something that -- for the abundance of high-quality theater craft it contains -- truly deserves enthusiastic applause. ❋ David Finkle (2011)

The BBC couldn't and wouldn't be allowed to do that; a judge with two assessors would surely be trussed in similar legalities. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Maurice slumped to the floor, putting up no resistance as the angel trussed him quickly. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

The cops on the scene said someone trussed him up with packing tape, put a plastic bag over his head, and taped that shut as well. ❋ J.A. Jance (2011)

Andrew Golis was run to ground, capture, trussed up, and carted home by Jessica Valenti? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The garage hs its own slab, it was built about 1985, a trussed roof with a "real" roof line, and a nice stud structure with siding and lots of windows. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Different spiced sauces were served on fish, meat and vegetables, trussed, roasted, fried, baked or boiled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"You've got to keep shocking the crocodile until it falls unconscious," the 52-year-old Mr. Praiphan as he twitched his thick, black mustache and patted a six-foot-long crocodile that was trussed up on the floor of his flat-bottom motorboat, located about a 20-minute drive from the center of Bangkok. ❋ James Hookway (2011)

He ordered away the small boy with the sled, to be replaced by a Cadillac sedan, with the trussed tree tied to the roof. ❋ Bob Lutz (2011)

But what if this was the one, this was the place where he was free and his damaged, demented mind had invented the other one, that red, overwhelming place where he lay bound, trussed and forever in pain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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