a bundle, or certain quantity of hay, straw, &c. A trus of hay contains 56 pounds, or half an hundred weight: 36 trifles make a load.

TRUS is also used for a sort of bandage or ligature made of steel, or the like matter, wherewith to keep up the parts in those who have hernias or ruptures.

in a ship, a machine employed to pull a yard home to its respective mast, and retain it firmly in that position.