[f. TRUSS v. + -ER1.]
† 1. A receptacle or appliance in or with which something is ‘trussed’; a bundle, package; a bandage. Obs.
1519. Horman, Vulg., 30. The bounche or botche … can vnneth be bounde vp with a trussar.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron. Hen. VIII., 17. Byndyng of males and fardelles, trussyng of coffers and trussers.
2. One who or that which trusses, in various senses: see the verb. spec. a. One who trusses a cask.
1535. [see TRUSS v. 11].
b. A person employed in, or a machine for, trussing hay or straw.
1889. Engineer, LXVII. 292. Hay and straw trussers.
1890. Univ. Exhib. Guide, June, 29/2. The Straw Trusser … was shown at work attached to the Steam Thrashing Machine.
1892. T. B. F. Eminson, Epidemic Pneumonia at Scotter, 49. The trussers … were engaged trussing the hay for sale.
c. A person employed in trussing poultry, etc.
1903. Daily Chron., 16 Sept., 8/6. Poultry.—Wanted a trusser for best-class work.
1906. Daily News, 14 Dec., 7. The removal of this favourite bone by the trusser.
3. A plant that produces trusses of blossom: usually with qualifying adj. expressing the quality of the trusses.
1843. Florist’s Jrnl. (1846), IV. 153. The flowers are extra-sized, and it is a very fine trusser.
1883. Garden, 11 March, 160/3. This … red ground Polyanthus … is a noble trusser.
