Definition of Struts

1. Noun. (plural of strut) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of strut) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Struts

1. strut [v] - See also: strut

Lexicographical Neighbors of Struts

strunted
strunting
strunts
strunzite
struse
struses
strut
strut one's stuff
struth
struthian
struthiomimus
struthioniform
struthious
struthonian
struthonians
struts (current term)
strutted
strutter
strutters
strutting
struttingly
struvite
struvites
strychnia
strychnic
strychnine
strychnines
stryphnic acid
stryve
stub

Literary usage of Struts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Architect and Building News (1903)
"In upper and lower flanges or booms these cores are constituted by cylindrical rods to which the iron cores of the struts are connected simply by bending ..."

2. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1921)
"struts AND BRACING.—Eave struts are very commonly made of four angles laced, made in the same way ... Eave struts made of single channels and an angle, Fig. ..."

3. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1912)
"struts AND BRACING.—Eave struts are very commonly made of four angles laced, ... Eave struts made of single channels are more economical, and are equally as ..."

4. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1903)
"struts AND BRACING.— Eave struts are very commonly made of four angles laced ... Eave struts made of single channels are more economical, and are equally as ..."

5. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1906)
"Have struts are very commonly . made of four angles laced, ... Eave struts made of single channels are more economical, and are equally as good as the laced ..."

6. Aeroplane Structures by Alfred John Sutton Pippard, John Laurence (1919)
"... short struts—Euler's theory of long columns—Eccentrically loaded struts —Southwell's modification of Smith's formula for pin-jointed struts—Deflection ..."

7. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1872)
"Timber POM* and struts. — The following formula is given on the authority ... For square posts and struts, the formula becomes If the strength of a timber ..."

8. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine (1883)
"The principles of the strength of wrought iron struts have been explained in ... In order to stiffen wrought iron struts, they are made of various forms in ..."

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