Term Gallery logo

Meanings of trussed in English

Bound or secured closely.

Related terms
Usage of trussed in English
1
The most simple bridge or trussed form is the well-known A-shaped arch.
Carpentry for Boys / In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on...
2
They found Cunningham trussed up to a chair in the smaller room.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
3
She pressed her arms against her sides, ready to have herself trussed.
Savage
4
Maybe I should just leave you trussed up and call the Constable.
Harvest Home
5
You brought me, trussed up like a hen in that aeroplane harness.
Boy Scouts in an Airship; Or, The Warning from the Sky
6
Gregory was still trussed up in my bedroom, pale and fragile looking.
Burnt Offerings
7
He was wrapped in layers of blankets, trussed up with packaging tape.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
8
He's trussed up tighter than my Aunt Gert in her Sunday girdle.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
9
Hard to do when one is trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey.
The bone chamber
10
While the soldier trussed up the prisoner, Hathor took another glance around.
Quest for honour
11
She was helpless, exactly like a fly being trussed by a spider.
The golden compass
12
So Koku, trussed up like some roped steer, was taken out again.
Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship; Or, The Naval Terror of the Se...
13
Bond wondered if they'd discovered Jessica and the man he'd trussed up.
Carte Blanche
14
QUAILS, being trussed and served like Woodcock, may be similarly carved.-SeeNo.
The Book of Household Management
15
How in the world did you get all trussed up like this?
Shadow of an angel
16
He doesn't need to be both trussed up and gagged, you know.
The Lighted Match
About this term
More collocations
Trussed through the time
Trussed across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common