Definitions
A beam that supports a floor, ceiling, or roof.
Word origin
From Old French giste, feminine of gist, the past participle of gesir (“to lie down”).
Used in a sentence
“There are generally forty-two teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed; nor filled after our artificial fashion. The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses.”
“[…] even the carpenters who made her over for the service had not thought her worth the trouble, and had done their worst by her. The new partitions were hung to the joists by a few nails.”
“Once the floor joists were in position, the framing of the next storey could continue, with a bressummer laid along their ends.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Floor support”5 letters
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