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A jester; a joker. [Obs.] Strutt.

in by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel. The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts. Gwilt.

trictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post.

ng bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut. Waddell.

ars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut.

The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).

Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss.

th, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII. Strutt.

A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

Foreign; outlandish. [Obs.] Strutt.

A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss. Panel game, a method of stealing money in a panel house. -- Panel house, a house of prostitution in which the rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates. -- Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, --…

er book or breviary; a portass. [Obs.] Portal bracing (Bridge Building), a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.

To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade. Swift.

Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was supplied with the ready. [Slang] Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts. Arbuthnot.

A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.

ccasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anæstesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quilaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.

An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.

g an inclined face to receive the nut of a diagonal brace, rod, or the end of an inclined strut, in a truss or frame. -- Skew bridge. See under Bridge, n. -- Skew curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Skew gearing, or Skew bevel gearing (Mach.), toothed gear…

U.S.] -- Snag tooth. Same as Snag, 2. How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side. J. Cotgrave.