{"topic":"truss","count":1,"articles":[{"id":"britannica-11-truss","work_id":"britannica-11","title":"Truss","normalized_title":"truss","slug":"truss","aliases":[],"subtitle":"Internet Archive OCR import","body_text":"TRUSS (from O. Fr. trusser, trosser, terser, trousser, to pack, bind, gird up, Low Lat. tortiare, formed from tortus, twisted, torquere, to twist; cf. \" torch \" and \" trousers,\" also trousseau, a bride's outfit, literally a small pack or bundle), a pack or bundle, applied specifically to a quantity of hay or straw tied together in a bundle. A truss of straw contains 36 Ib, of old hay 56 Ib, of new hay 60 Ib. A load contains 36 trusses. The term is also used generally of a supporting frame or structure, especially in the construction of a roof or a bridge. It is thus used as the name of a surgical appliance, a belt with an elastic spring keeping in place a pad used as a support in cases of hernia (q.v.).","body_html":"<p>TRUSS (from O. Fr. trusser, trosser, terser, trousser, to pack, bind, gird up, Low Lat. tortiare, formed from tortus, twisted, torquere, to twist; cf. &quot; torch &quot; and &quot; trousers,&quot; also trousseau, a bride&#x27;s outfit, literally a small pack or bundle), a pack or bundle, applied specifically to a quantity of hay or straw tied together in a bundle. A truss of straw contains 36 Ib, of old hay 56 Ib, of new hay 60 Ib. A load contains 36 trusses. The term is also used generally of a supporting frame or structure, especially in the construction of a roof or a bridge. It is thus used as the name of a surgical appliance, a belt with an elastic spring keeping in place a pad used as a support in cases of hernia (q.v.).</p>","volume_id":"britannica-11-v27","page_range_label":"Vol. 27, pp. 329-329","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/page/n352/mode/1up","text_source_url":"https://ia903207.us.archive.org/15/items/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich","quality_status":"ocr-imported-page-aligned","parser_version":"ia-djvu-xml-v1","page_refs":[{"page_number":"329","label":"p. 329","image_url":"/source-assets/scans/britannica-11/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_0353.jpg","source_image_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_jp2.zip/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_jp2%2Fencyclopaediabri27chisrich_0353.jp2&ext=jpg","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/page/n352/mode/1up"}],"work":{"id":"britannica-11","slug":"britannica-11","title":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","short_title":"Britannica 11th","edition":"11th edition","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","publication_start_year":1910,"publication_end_year":1911,"language":"English","country":"United Kingdom / United States","copyright_status_note":"First published before 1931; treated as public domain in the United States. 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