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Joist   /dʒɔɪst/   Listen
Joist

noun
1.
Beam used to support floors or roofs.



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trimmer joist


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"Joist" Quotes from Famous Books



... artificial pond, the tumbler, soon brings it into touch with what it is seeking. This is a little faggot of dry twigs, which I have selected of equal length and of slight thickness. Displaying greater care than it did when treating the slender roots, the carpenter measures out the requisite length on the joist. The distance to which it has to extend its body in order to reach the point where the break will be made tells it pretty accurately what length of ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre


Words linked to "Joist" :   beam, trimmer, trimmer joist


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