Crossword-Solution: TRUSSING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trussing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Truss |
| Trussing | n. | The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. |
| Trussing | n. | The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss. |
| Trussing | n. | The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “TRUSSING”
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| Tying securely | 1 answer |
| Tying (up) | 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
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TRUSSING (5)
They were tied to prevent their flying away, doubled up with their knees close to their ears; and for the trussing of them the black pirate had cut a rope into nine equal pieces.
Here they threw me upon the ground, binding my ankles together and trussing them up to my wrists behind.
Christopher looked on the two joyfully, as a man getting whole after sickness smiles on goodly things; and Joanna was fair to see in her hunter's attire, with brogues tied to her naked feet, and the shapeliness of her legs bare to the knee beneath the trussing up of her green skirts.
Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.
Calling to Harry to watch the corridor without, I quickly tore my woolen jacket into strips--my fingers seemed to be made of steel--and bound the wrists and ankles of the Inca firmly, trussing him up behind.
Quotes with TRUSSING (2)
You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxygen. Wouldn’t it be simpler just to rough in a slab of chemicals, a green acre of goo? You are a man, a retired railroad worker who makes replicas as a hobby. You decide to make a replica of one tree, the longleaf pine your great-grandfather planted- just a replica- it doesn’t have to work. How are you going to do it? How long do you think you might live, how good is your glue?…
By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1973).