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Definition of Joists
1. joist [v] - See also: joist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Joists
Literary usage of Joists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Thickness of Sheathing and Spacing of joists.—The type and intended use of the
building will in a great measure determine the general arrangement of floor ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"1, 2) consists of one row or tier of joists alone, bearing from one wall or
partition to another, without any intermediate support, and receiving the ..."
3. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"THE MAXIMUM SPANS FOR FLOOR joists, CEILING-joists AND RAFTERS.* When the span
of a wooden joist exceeds about twelve times its depth the joist will usually ..."
4. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"The binders rest upon the plates bedded on the walls, and serve the purpose of
supports to the joists which are bridged on them, as well as to the ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The bearings of the joists on the wall also rest on wall plates, ... X 3 in.
and are bedded on walls in motar, take the ends of joists and distribute the ..."
6. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"In this sense the whole system of timbers or iron beams, including girders,
summers, binding beams, trimmers, headers, and ordinary joists or floor beams ..."
7. Carpentry Made Easy, Or, The Science and Art of Framing, on a New and by William E. Bell (1859)
"The joists are 2 by 10, 18 feet long. Trimmer joists. Those marked A, B, and C,
at each side of the fire-place, are called trimmer joists; they are 4 by 10 ..."
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