joists
joists is the plural of joist.
joists is the third-person singular simple present indicative of joist.
Meaning of joist
Noun
joist (plural 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...1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., page 190
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- Joists is the plural of joist.
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