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trusser|ˈtrʌsə(r)|
[f. truss v. + -er1.]
†1. A receptacle or appliance in or with which something is ‘trussed’; a bundle, package; a bandage. Obs.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 30 The bounche or botche..can vnneth be bounde vp with a trussar. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 17 Byndyng of males and fardelles, trussyng of coffers and trussers.
2. One who or that which trusses, in various senses: see the verb. spec.
a. One who trusses a cask.
1535[see truss v. 11].
b. A person employed in trussing poultry, etc.
1857A. Mathews Tea-Table Talk II. 96 It [sc. a chicken] had apparently made a vigorous struggle for continued existence, which struggle had evidently distorted its form out of the power of the trusser to regulate. 1903Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 8/6 Poultry.—Wanted a trusser for best-class work. 1906Daily News 14 Dec. 7 The removal of this favourite bone by the trusser.
c. A person employed in, or a machine for, trussing hay or straw.
1889Engineer LXVII. 292 Hay and straw trussers. 1890Univ. Exhib. Guide June 29/2 The Straw Trusser..was shown at work attached to the Steam Thrashing Machine. 1892T. B. F. Eminson Epidemic Pneumonia at Scotter 49 The trussers..were engaged trussing the hay for sale.
3. A plant that produces trusses of blossom: usually with qualifying adj. expressing the quality of the trusses.
1843Florist's Jrnl. (1846) IV. 153 The flowers are extra⁓sized, and it is a very fine trusser. 1882Garden 11 Mar. 160/3 This..red ground Polyanthus..is a noble trusser. |