STRUT

In Architecture, a piece of timber obliquely placed from a king or queen post to support a rafter. It is sometimes called a brace. See Roof. STRUTHIONID^. (Struthio, an ostrich.) The name of a family of terrestrial birds, incapable of flight, with very short or rudimental wings, and long and strong legs; including the ostrich and other congeneric species which constitute the order Cursores of Kirby, and the family Brevipennes in the system of Cuvier. [s. 1195]