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Strut   /strət/   Listen
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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"Strut" Quotes from Famous Books



... procession of bears come out, led, I believe, by a rooster who claps his wings and crows, and then they walk round a old man with a hour glass who strikes the hour on a bell. But the bears lead the programmy and bow and strut round ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley
... on, I could proudly strut about among the lumber and sheep-pens without fear of rolling overboard. I found the sailors a rough but good-natured set of fellows, with but little refinement in ideas or language. Although they amused themselves with my awkwardness, and annoyed me with practical jokes, they took a pride ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper
... alone ought to be made responsible for the money. And lastly, she loathed and condemned him for the reason that he was so obviously unequal to the situation. He could not handle it. He was found out. He was disproved, He did not know what to do. He could only mouth, strut, bully, and make rude noises. He could not even keep decently around him the cloak of self-importance. He stood revealed to Mrs. Maldon and Rachel as he had sometimes stood revealed to his dead wife and to his elder children and to ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... portly little man with a red face and a bald brow. His very strut pronounced him a self-made man. He glared at his son, whose cool nonchalance he often ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... John's pockets are an integral part of his personality. He feels after his pocket instinctively while yet in what corresponds in the genus homo with the polywog state in batrachia. The incipient man begins to strut as soon as mamma puts pockets into his kilted skirt—a stride as prophetic as the strangled crow of the cockerel upon the ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland


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