Crossword-Solution: TRUSS 5 letters, 111 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Truss	n.	A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.
Truss	n.	A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
Truss	n.	A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
Truss	n.	A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
Truss	n.	The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
Truss	n.	An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
Truss	n.	To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.
Truss	n.	To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
Truss	n.	To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
Truss	n.	To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
Truss	n.	To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
TRUSS	anagram	RUSTS

We have 111 clues for the answer “TRUSS”

Clue	Answers
"Iceberg lettuce in blond wig outlasts Liz ___" ( _Guardian_ headline in October of 2022)	1 answer
Architect's bracket	1 answer
Architectural feature that's an anagram of "rusts"	1 answer
Bind like a chicken	1 answer
Bind with skewers	1 answer
Bind with string	1 answer
Bind, as a chicken for roasting	1 answer
Bind, as a fowl	1 answer
Brace a roof.	1 answer
Bridge builder's option	1 answer
Bridge strengthener	1 answer
Builder's framework	1 answer
Bundle of hay or straw	1 answer
Cluster of fruit or flowers at the end of a stalk	1 answer
Fasten with skewers.	1 answer
Framework of beams	1 answer
Framework supporting a bridge.	1 answer
Her stint as PM was outlasted by a head of lettuce	1 answer
Lighting rig	1 answer
Liz who resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after less than two months (October, 2022)	1 answer
Liz who was prime minister for 49 days	1 answer
Network of beams	1 answer
Pack into a bundle.	1 answer
Prep with cooking twine, as a turkey	1 answer
Prepare (fowl) for roasting	1 answer
Prepare for roasting, as a fowl	1 answer
Rigid framework	1 answer
Steel framework.	1 answer
Structural frame	1 answer
Structure supporting a roof	1 answer
Supporting bracket	1 answer
Tie for cooking	1 answer
Tie for roasting	1 answer
Tie up the turkey	1 answer
Tie up tightly	1 answer
Tie up, as a turkey	1 answer
Type of suspension bridge	1 answer
Wooden or metal framework	1 answer
bind structural framework	1 answer
tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it	1 answer
Hernia supporter	1 answer
Britain’s shortest-serving PM	1 answer
Architectural bracket	2 answers
Surgical support	2 answers
Bridge framework	2 answers
Support framework	2 answers
Bridge beam	3 answers
Bind up	3 answers
ROOF-beam	3 answers
Roof beam	3 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

REAA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with TRUSS (5)

The waggon, from its position, seemed to have been left there for the night, for beyond about half a truss of hay which was heaped in the bottom, it was quite empty.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

The Hart in the Ox-Stall A Hart hotly pursued by the hounds fled for refuge into an ox-stall, and buried itself in a truss of hay, leaving nothing to be seen but the tips of his horns.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

While this was going on, a conference was being held; and I had the satisfaction of seeing some men pull up a lot of dead rushes, dexterously tie them into bundles, and truss these together by means of spears.

Tracks of a Rolling Stone Henry J. Coke 2012

Will Noakes the saddler dropped his lantern on a truss of straw while he was rat-hunting there.’ ‘Had ye given Will any of that gentle cordial of yours, Nick, by any chance?’ said Puck.

Rewards and Fairies Rudyard Kipling 1996

But they just live among heaped boulders, damp with continual droppings from above, with no more furniture than two or three tin pans, a truss of rotten straw, and a few ragged cloaks.

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends - Volume 1 [of 2] Robert Louis Stevenson 2019

Quotes with TRUSS (3)

There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write poems, love-letters, novels and stories it seems. They whip out their Sharpies and take away and add apostrophes from public signs, shake their heads at prepositions which end sentences and mutter at split infinitives and misspellings, but do they bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy at language? Do they ever let the tripping of the tips of their ton…

Stephen Fry

Great triumphs of engineering genius — the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail — ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

Arthur Mellen Wellington

Ed Timpson is a fantastic minister for early intervention, and Liz Truss is a fantastic minister for Sure Start.

Andrea Leadsom

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 134 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).