Stuff the turkey loosely, truss, and roast, in a covered roaster.
"The Myrtle Reed Cook Book"
Myrtle Reed
Urged by rude hands maid and youth were bound truss-wise with cords.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
The helper was worthy of his title, and fetched the ale, and then, one seated on a truss of straw, the other upon the corn-bin, the two men finished the ale between them, and just at the time that James Bell should have been at Mrs Pontardent's gate, he was fast asleep in the stable.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn