[f. STRUT v.2 + -ING1.] a. The action of strengthening or supporting with a strut or struts. b. concr. Struts collectively.
1833. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 1066. The joists to be … stiffened with herring-bone strutting.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2431. Strutting, diagonal braces between joists to prevent side deflection.
1896. Daily News, 15 Dec., 2/3. The Committee ordered certain works to be done, including … the shoring and strutting of the gables and great northern arch.
c. attrib. strutting-beam, piece, a beam or piece that acts as a strut.
1753. F. Price, Brit. Carpenter (ed. 3), 17. If the strutting-beam … be drove in very tight, it takes all the weight off from the rafters.
1833. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 238. Pieces of timber driven fast between each pair of joists, with their ends butting against the groin of the joists; they are commonly called strutting pieces, and their use is to stiffen the floor.
