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Encyclopedia Britannica



JOIST

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 494 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JOIST , in building, one of a row or tier of beams set edgewise from one
wall
  or
partition
  to another and carrying the flooring boards on the upper edge and the laths of the ceiling on the lower. In
double
  flooring there are three
series
  of joists, binding, bridging, and ceiling joists. The binding joists are the real support of the floor, running from
wall
  to wall, and carrying the bridging joists above and the ceiling joists below (see
CARPENTRY
 ),
The Mid. Eng. form of the word was giste or gyste, and was adapted from O. Fr. giste,
modern
  gite, a beam supporting the platform of a gun. By origin the word meant that on which anything lies or rests (gesir, to lie; Lat. jacere).
The
English
  word " gist," in such phrases as " the gist of the matter," the main or central point in an argument, is a doublet of joist. According to Skeat, the origin of this meaning is an O. Fr. proverbial expression, Je say bien oiu gist le lievre, I know well where the
hare
  lies, i.e. I know the real point of the matter.


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