Also 9 strutt. [f. STRUT sb.2]
1. trans. To brace or support by a strut or struts; to hold in place or strengthen by an upright, diagonal or transverse support. Also with advs.
1828. Carr, Craven Gloss., Strut, to brace, a term used in carpentry.
1838. Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 374/2. If the resistance piles are sufficiently braced and strutted not to yield by the driving of the wedges.
1845. Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., VIII. 212/1. The toes of the walls will require to be strutted apart.
1869. Sir E. Reed, Shipbuild., i. 12. A ship rolling about with a heavy cargo will alter her form, as regards its transverse section, very much, if she is built of iron, and is not sufficiently strutted and tied with beams.
a. 1878. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit. (1879), II. 225. In Henry VII’s Chapel these great arches are visible only in the side vaults, which are strutted up from them with strong tracery.
1897. Pall Mall Mag., June, 254. The old boat was no more than waterproof, and … Severn had to run a new stringer round her, to strut out the ribs.
1912. C. E. Power, Eng. Mediæv. Arch., II. 340. Flying Buttress to strut the Vault.
fig. 1832. Examiner, 161/1. Employing, to boot, all tricky expedients to strutt up the tottering system.
2. intr. To be fixed diagonally or slantwise; to be bent so as to form a sharp turn or angle.
1841. W. Templeton, Locomot. Eng., 30. The best form of wrought iron wheels, is round arms strutting from the rim to the nave in a zig-zag form.
1853. Sir H. Douglas, Milit. Bridges, 291. Braces, strutting considerably, were driven down as far as possible into the bottom of the river, at each end of the trestles.
