A particular method of binding and strengthening a vessel internally by a series of riders and truss-pieces placed diagonally.
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Truss>>. II. Trussing ·noun The timbers, ·etc., which form a truss, taken coll...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel. II. Diagonal ·noun A diago...
, knees, planks, &c., are such as cross a vessel's timbers obliquely. (See diagonal trussing.) ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A narrow plank made to a line formed on the half-breadth plan, by taking the intersections of the di...