MEANING
A roof truss with lower members sloping and crossing, often allowing a raised interior ceiling.
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- timber scissor truss
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A scissor truss lifted the hall’s ceiling.
The crossed members of the scissor truss remained exposed.
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- scissor truss
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular scissor truss; plural scissor trusses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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