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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
joist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ceiling
▪ In most households, small areas of the ceiling joists within the roof void are often boarded over to provide storage space.
▪ The existing ceiling joists must also be fire-protected with an overlay of glass fibre insulation, and new joists installed.
▪ The ceiling joists sit on the top of this wall.
▪ In either case, you will have to find the ceiling joists and mark their positions on the wall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any time you interrupt more than one joist, the adjacent joists must be doubled to carry the load.
▪ Clip them securely to the joists and to the cistern platform; this will also reduce noise from the system.
▪ Gardener's knee pads are a good idea: kneeling on joists can be very uncomfortable.
▪ If there is only one, pick up the carpeting and make sure the plywood is secured properly to the joists.
▪ In either case, you will have to find the ceiling joists and mark their positions on the wall.
▪ The joists are pocketed into the side walls or party walls.
▪ The mats are unrolled and laid between the joists, while the granular insulation is just poured on to the boards.
▪ Try to keep them in a fairly straight line along each joist.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Joist

Joist \Joist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Joisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Joisting.] To fit or furnish with joists.
--Johnson.

Joist

Joist \Joist\ (joist), n. [OE. giste, OF. giste, F. g[^i]te, fr. gesir to lie, F. g['e]sir. See Gist.] (Arch.) A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
joist

early 14c. (late 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Old French giste "beam supporting a bridge" (Modern French gîte), noun use of fem. past participle of gesir "to lie," from Latin iacere "to lie, rest," related to iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Notion is of wooden beam on which boards "lie down."

Wiktionary
joist

n. A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed. vb. (context transitive English) To fit or furnish with joists.

WordNet
joist

n. beam used to support floors or roofs

Wikipedia
Joist

In architecture and engineering, a joist is one of the horizontal supporting members that run between foundations, walls, or beams to support a ceiling or floor. Typically, a joist has the cross section of a plank. Joists are often supported by beams laid out in repetitive patterns.

Usage examples of "joist".

The building of the vessel was hastened as much as possible, and, by means of the waterfall on the shore, Cyrus Harding managed to establish an hydraulic sawmill, which rapidly cut up the trunks of trees into planks and joists.

Everyone helped, and everyone learnt the more practical aspects of gussets and joists and tenons and rabbet grooves that a didactic carpentry course could never impart.

The walls were of barkless log, milled flat on the inside, and the ceiling joists were squared-off and planed.

The Mountaineer Lodge was an imposing fretwork of rafters, joists, beams, and purlins slotted together with hand-tooled joints: a modern version of the pioneer cabin, expanded to accommodate fifty guests in neo-rustic splendor, i.

Above you and around you are beams and joists, on some of which you may see, when the light is let in, the marks of the conchoidal clippings of the broadaxe, showing the rude way in which the timber was shaped as it came, full of sap, from the neighboring forest.

After it penetrated the surface hardwood and the subflooring, little of the nail would remain to grip a joist.

Spiros up in the fresh air the most of the time, working with plane, froe, saw, and chisel, and Stavros spending his days up to his knees in the stinking bilge water, setting the diagonals and joists for the underdeck, and only then moving on to fitting the underdeck, plank by plank.

Joseph enumerated the beams, joists, ashlars, and the iron-work, and volubly praised the old domain.

There was a huge charred hole in the wall behind the desk and the ceiling above it, with naked joists and rafters gone to charcoal, and Mallory's wardrobe, replete with all his London finery, burnt to cindered rags and smashed mirror-glass.

In a lower room, Anthemius arranged several vessels or caldrons of water, each of them covered by the wide bottom of a leathern tube, which rose to a narrow top, and was artificially conveyed among the joists and rafters of the adjacent building.

The light was good, daggering through the open spaces between the roof joists.

Each brick and slate, each shattered timber from the stairs and banisters, each tile and ceiling joist, was carefully plucked out, examined for whatever it might show, which was nothing, and tossed out into the roadway, where the nibble mounted higher and higher.

The rope around his neck and up to a cabin carling, the equivalent of a ceiling joist, had evidently been cut from a topsail halyard, because it was that size of line.

The floor seemed to be made of the mid-ribs of some type of leaf, coconut palm, probably, laid across close-set joists, and there was no ceiling as such, just steep-angled rafters with thatch above.

Bullets whizzed by David's head and ricocheted around the basement until they embedded themselves in an overhead floor joist, the stairs, or one of the wooden doors.