Strut

1. a. Protuberant.
2. v. t. To swell; to bulge out.
3. v. t. To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
4. n. The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
5. n. In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
6. n. 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.
7. v. t. To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.