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a.
Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
n.
Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
n.
Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.
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One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
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A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Joist
v. t.
To fit or furnish with joists.
imp. & p. p.
of Joist
n.
A crossbeam; a lay of joists.
v. t.
Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening.
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A middle joist or crossbeam.
v. t.
To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.
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A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
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A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.
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One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
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A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.
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A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.
v. t.
To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
n.
One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.
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The space or interval between two joists.
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