joist
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joist
- /d͡ʒɔɪst/
Rhymes with -ɔɪst
Where it comes from
From Old French giste, feminine of gist, the past participle of gesir (“to lie down”).
noun joists
- A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed. […] a Family was infected there, in so terrible a Manner that every one of the House died; the last Person lay dead on the Floor, and as it is supposed, had laid her self all along to die just before the Fire; the Fire, it seems had fallen from its Place, being of Wood, and had taken hold of the Boa
verb joists · joisting · joisted
- To fit or furnish with joists. The floors are joisted with sapling tree trunks, and the flooring itself is made of bark, split and pounded flat into strips. No attempt is made either to fasten or join the strips of flooring.
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noun piece of timber
| Français | solive |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Balken, Querbalken, Holzbalken, Deckenbalken, Unterzug, Schwelle |
Talk about this word "joist." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/joist. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. joist. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/joist "joist." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/joist.Cite this
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title = {joist},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/joist},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
