Clues for the word "TRUSS"
We've had 59 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 144 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 15, 2025.
Definition of truss
- n. - A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.
- n. - A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- n. - A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
- n. - A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
- n. - The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
- n. - An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
- n. - To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.
- n. - To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
- n. - To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
- n. - To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
- n. - To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.
Referring Clues
- Supporting beam
- Builder's framework
- Bind, as a chicken for roasting
- Tie up
- Bridge support
- Tie tightly
- Bridge strengthener
- Roof support
- Bind tightly
- Tie up tightly
- Secure tightly
- Supporting bracket
- Tie
- Network of beams
- Tie that binds
- Wooden or metal framework
- Bridge builder's option
- Structural support
- Tie up, as a turkey
- Tie up, as a turkey
- Bridge beam
- Roof beam
- Brace
- Bind
- Supporting framework
- Prepare for roasting, as a fowl
- Bind, as a fowl
- Supporting frame
- Tie for cooking
- Support beam
- Structure support
- Bridge part
- Hogtie
- Tie up - bind
- Medical support
- Bundle of hay or straw
- Support structure in Soviet Russia
- Tie - bandage
- Bind - structural framework
- Bind like a chicken
- Grammarian who makes a bundle
- Fasten
- Lynne ___, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- Surgical support
- Punctuation expert offers support
- Supporting structure
- Bind with string
- Abbot puts on shirt and tie
- Bridge type
- Bridge framework
- Support framework
- Framework of beams
- Several 4-Across make one
- Framework of beams supporting a bridge
- Support structure
- Tie for roasting
- Bandage consisting of a pad and belt
- Framework supporting a bridge
- Strut
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 15, 2025
- Daily American - November 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 08, 2025
- Daily American - April 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 20, 2025
- Daily American - February 02, 2025
- Daily American - January 05, 2025
- New York Times - January 03, 2025
- LA Times - December 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 08, 2024
- Mirror Mini - June 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 16, 2024
- Daily American - January 13, 2024
- Daily American - November 24, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 01, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 13, 2023
- Mirror Mini - June 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 10, 2023
- Daily American - April 06, 2023
- And in 114 more crossword puzzles...