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• v  tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it
• v  secure with or as if with ropes
• v  support structurally
  trussed bridges
• s  bound or secured closely
  the guard was found trussed up with his arms and legs securely tied
  a trussed chicken

• After planting evidence on one of the deceased, Ludlow finds a cramped wall recess, with two girls trussed up and cowering inside.
• One day, harem-scare-em Ibrahim ordered his 1,001 concubines trussed, weighted and tossed into the sea-and, of course, replaced.
• In June Defendant McCaughey and three others snatched him from his home, trussed him up with wire, hustled him to an empty County Louth farmhouse.

• truss
• tie down
• tie up
• bind
• tied

News & Articles

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• Cooking up some sassy laughs
  Somewhere in a heaven filled with feather-light crepes and properly trussed herb-roasted fowl, Julia Child is probably giggling a bit. Because, at the heart of it, the French Chef was kind of a broad, never taking herself or her brilliant food all that seriously.
  Oct. 1, 2013 - The News & Observer

Quotes

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• Ralph Ellison in Los Angeles Times
  I propose that we view the whole of American life as a drama acted out upon the body of a Negro giant, who, lying trussed up like Gulliver, forms the stage and the scene upon which and within which the action unfolds,novelist and critic Ralph...
• Peter Watt in Independent
  A friend of Mr Watt said yesterday: "He was trussed up like a chicken. A lot of people in the party feel he was thrown to the wolves."
• Christine Boskoff in San Diego Union Tribune
  It's our culture, women are taught to still be more delicate and trussed up. Mountaineering really doesn't allow you to do that,Boskoff said.