truss
verb (used with object)
to tie, bind, or fasten.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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I have been provost-Marshal twenty years, And have trussed up a thousand of these rascals, But so near Paris yet I never met with One of that Brotherhood.
From The Little French Lawyer A Comedy by Francis Beaumont