trusseth

Verb

truss (third-person singular simple present trusses, present participle trussing, simple past and past participle trussed)

1. (transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.
2. (transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
   • Very largely haue I inueighed againſt this vice [gluttony] elſvvhere, vvherefore heere I vvill truſſe it vp more ſurcinct;^([sic – meaning succinct]) […]1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by Andrewe Wise, […], →OCLC, folio 76, verso
3. (transitive) To support.
4. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
   • who trussing me as eagle doth his prey1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18
5. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
6. (archaic, slang) To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.
   • If they must truss me, I will repent of nothing1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James...

   Synonyms:

   string up, tuck up, forhang, Guy Fawkes, hang, ketch, send to the scaffold, scrag, stretch

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