Trussing

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. Weale.

2. The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.

3. The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air. [Obs.]