TRUSSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trussed mean? 

• TRUSSED (adjective)
  The adjective TRUSSED has 1 sense:

1. bound or secured closely

  Familiarity information: TRUSSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUSSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bound or secured closely

Synonyms:

tied; trussed

Context example:

a trussed chicken

Similar:

bound (confined by bonds)

 Context examples 

I see that your squire's eyes are starting from his head like a trussed crab.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl and a pudding; I sitting at table, not unlike a trussed bird myself, and moving my arms with considerable difficulty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I have seen him ere now, with monk's gown trussed to his knees, over his sandals in blood in the fore-front of the battle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then, ere the sun was on the slope of the heavens, they had deftly trussed up again, and were swinging merrily upon their way, two hundred feet moving like two.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But this is the letter which I am to take; and since the platter is clean it is time that we trussed up and were afoot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne gazed upon the scene—the portly velvet-clad official, the knot of hard-faced archers with their hands to the bridles of their horses, the thief with his arms trussed back and his doublet turned down upon his shoulders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)