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noun

Strut n.

1.

The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.

2.

(Arch.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace.

3.

(Engin.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; the opposite of stay, and tie.

verb

Strut v. t. (past & past part. strutted; pres. part. strutting)

1.

To swell; to bulge out. (R.) "The bellying canvas strutted with the gale."

2.

To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. "Does he not hold up his head,... and strut in his gait?"

Strut v. t. To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.

adjective

Strut adj. Protuberant. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Strut'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Strut" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Company and the Five Families got together and marketed a luxury item to the galaxy. You know how every super-jet big shot on twenty-five planets wants to say he's hunted on Khatka. And if he can point out a graz head on his wall, or wear a tail bracelet, he's able to strut with the best. To holiday on Khatka is both fabulous and fashionable—and very, very profitable for the natives and for Combine who sells ...

— Voodoo Planet • Andrew North

... has for its object the manufacture of weldless stayed chains, whereof each link, together with its cross strut or stay, is made of one piece of metal without any weld or joint; and the invention consists in producing a chain of stayed links from a bar of cruciform section by the consecutive series of punching, twisting and stamping operations hereinafter described, the punching operations ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various

... probationary classes of "volunteers," instead of being at once advanced to a warrant. Nor will you fail to remark, when you see an English cutter officered by one of those volunteers, that the boy does not so strut and slap his dirk-hilt with a Bobadil air, and anticipatingly feel of the place where his warlike whiskers are going to be, and sputter out oaths so at the men, as is too often the case with the little boys wearing best-bower ...

— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

... watched the men dispersing, their bundles under their arms, each one making direct for his own front door. "Every woman in Riverfield will have to put down needle and fry-pan and butter-paddle to feed them so plum full of compliments that they'll strut for a week. Bless my heart, honeybunch, we have all got to turn around twice in each track to get ready, and as I'm pretty hefty I must begin right now." With this remark, Aunt Mary departed from the back door to ...

— The Golden Bird • Maria Thompson Daviess

... she was sorry for them. "Every brood," she declared, "should have at least one swimmer in it." She began to strut up and down the edge of the duck-pond, clucking in a most overbearing fashion. Really, she had never felt quite so important before—not even when her first brood pecked their way ...

— The Tale of Henrietta Hen • Arthur Scott Bailey

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