| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  joist |
| 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. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: joist·ed, joist·ing, joists
To construct with joists. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English giste, joiste, from Old French giste, from feminine past participle of gesir, to lie, lie down, from Latin iac re. See y- in Appendix I.
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