Usually means: Supportive beam for floors, ceilings.
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  1. joist: Merriam-Webster
  2. joist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. joist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. joist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. joist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Joist, joist: Wordnik
  7. joist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. joist: Wiktionary
  9. joist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. joist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. joist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Joist, joist: Dictionary.com
  13. joist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Joist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Joist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. joist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. joist: Rhymezone
  18. Joist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. joist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. joist: FreeDictionary.org
  21. joist: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. joist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. joist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. joist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. joist: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Joist: Castle Terms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  2. Joist: Construction Glossary
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
verb:  (transitive) To fit or furnish with joists.

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