What is "joists"

Usage examples of "joists".

There were three such joists in close succession, spaced within a meter.

He walked past the opening to the new street and saw that there was a matching set of three joists on the far side of the new tunnel.

They, moreover, built over the joists with small bricks as high as the protection of the plutei and vineae permitted them.

These joists they made somewhat longer, to project beyond the outside of the wall, that they might serve to hang a curtain on them to defend and repel all blows while they were building the walls between that and the next floor, and the floor of this story they faced with bricks and mortar, that the enemy's fire might do them no damage.

The roof being thus sloped and laid over in rows in the same manner as the joists were laid on the braces, the musculus was covered with tiles and mortar, to secure it against fire, which might be thrown from the wall.

For Alexandria is in a manner secure from fire, because the houses are all built without joists or wood, and are all vaulted, and roofed with tile or pavement.

The ancient knob-and-tube wiring was clearly visible among the floor joists overhead, and the thirty-amp fuse box was a joke.

A real wall would be joined to the joists above, but this one is just tucked in under the plaster of the ceiling.

Carville shone his flashlight around the pipes amid the joists overhead.

That's so the load-bearing wall can run right down the middle of the house and hold the floor joists for the second story.

But when he turned the light down on the ceiling joists, satisfaction faded.

The second carpenter was methodically prying loose the short stubs remaining nailed to the joists, using the claws of a hammer, and letting them drop through to the basement too.

Between them and the opposite wall the flooring was gone, the big wooden joists fully exposed.

He also calculated the price of the joists, the time taken, the wages for the extra pair of hands that would be needed.

The ceiling supports and joists were seriously weakened and, oil soaked, began to burn.