discharging strut
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. [1913 Webster]
2.To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. [1913 Webster]
The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city.— Knolles.[1913 Webster]
Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.— H. Spencer.[1913 Webster]
3.To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. [1913 Webster]
Discharged of business, void of strife.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty.— L'Estrange.[1913 Webster]
4.To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. [1913 Webster]
Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
5.To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. [1913 Webster]
6.To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. [1913 Webster]
7.To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. [1913 Webster]
They do discharge their shot of courtesy.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
8.To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. [1913 Webster]
We say such an order was "discharged on appeal."— Mozley & W.[1913 Webster]
The order for Daly's attendance was discharged.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
9.To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part. [1913 Webster]
Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
10.To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
If he had The present money to discharge the Jew.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
11.To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. [1913 Webster]
12.To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
13.(Textile Dyeing & Printing) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process; as, to discharge the color from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark ground. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Discharging arch (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of Lintel.
Discharging piece, Discharging strut (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support.
Discharging rod (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See Discharger.
Syn: See Deliver. [1913 Webster]