Joist

Quick meaning: Joist is a noun meaning (transitive) To fit or furnish with joists.

Meaning

(transitive) To fit or furnish with joists.

More Meanings

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Once the floor joists were in position, the framing of the next storey could continue, with a bressummer laid along their ends.

[…] even the carpenters who made her over for the service had not thought her worth the trouble, and had done their worst by her. The new partitions were hung to the joists by a few nails.

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.

There are generally forty-two teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed; nor filled after our artificial fashion. The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses.

Word Forms

• joists
• joisting
• joisted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beam, hangers, floorboard, lath, planching, ligger.

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