joist

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Want to spray this stuff in crawl spaces and basements in floor joist,,, rim joist area, sill plate areas to keep cracks and such sealed up and crawl spaces warmer, thus floors etc.

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  1. noun Any of the wood, steel, or concrete beams set parallel from wall to wall or across or abutting girders to support a floor or ceiling.
  2. transitive verb To construct with joists.

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  • The light now shone on a tin candlestick nailed to a joist, high up on the wall. —  Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 13: 1944
  • Except for presence of heavy joist, located directly beneath impacted floorboard. —  AnalogSFF,September2008
  • Want to spray this stuff in crawl spaces and basements in floor joist,,, rim joist area, sill plate areas to keep cracks and such sealed up and crawl spaces warmer, thus floors etc. —  BiggerPockets Forums
  • The base or the joist that is holding the boxing heavy bag needs to be strong enough to withstand the weight of the bag and the pressure that is added to the bag when it is being used. —  Article Source
  • With woods filled with trees fit for building, she sends all the way to the Provinces for shingles, joist, and boards. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866
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  1. Middle English giste, joiste, from Old French giste, from feminine past participle of gesir, to lie, lie down, from Latin iacēre; see yē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The vulgar pron. jīst (like jīn, jīnt, hīst, etc., for join, joint, hoist, etc.) was formerly in good usage, and in this case is etymologically correct, the form joist, early modern English joyst, being a corruption of jist (pron. jīst), from Middle English giste, gyste (with long vowel, as in Middle English Crist, modern Christ), a joist, beam, from Old French giste, a bed, couch, place to lie on, a beam, French gîte, a lodging, form (of a hare), bed or stratum (in geology), from Old French gesir, French gésir, lie, from Latin jacēre, lie: see jacent, adjacent, etc., and cf. gist, a doublet of joist.
  2. from joist, n.
 

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