trussed

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Their haire is very blacke and reacheth euen downe to their hips, howbeit they trusse it vp after a fashion that becommeth them very well.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard

I am sent for now I am sure, and must even trusse, and to her.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

O stay a little sweet Wynnifred, helpe me but to trusse my Poynts againe, and have with you.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

She meant to go this very day to town, and she will: Doo barnes, goo we and trusse to towne.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

The man that sweeps the chimneys with the bush of thorns, And on his neck a trusse of poles tipped all with horns, With care he is not cumbered, he liveth not in dread?

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles