Synonymous with clasp-hoops for masts or spars; they are open iron hoops, so made that their ends, being let into each other, may be well fastened by means of iron wedges or forelock keys.
The strong iron bindings of the anchor-stock to the shank, though square, are called hoops. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. II. Truss ·noun To bind or pack close; to make int...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The trusses or parrels of the lower yards serve to bind them to their masts and are bowsed taut when...
Strong iron hoops, binding the stock to the end of the shank and over the nuts of the anchor. ...
Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast. ...
A combustible invented by the knights of Malta to throw among their besiegers, and afterwards used i...
The iron hoops on made or built masts. ...
·- A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss. ...
That part of a rope-truss which goes round the yard. ...
That part of a rope-truss into which the truss-tackle blocks are seized. ...
The fillings in between the frame compartments of the riders, in diagonal trussing. ...
A gun-tackle purchase applied to the ends of the truss-pendants, to bowse them taut home to the mast...
To brail up a sail suddenly; to toss up a bunt. ...