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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 494 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JOIST , in See also:

BUILDING

building, one of a See also:

ROW, JOHN (c. 1525—1580)

row or tier of beams set edgewise from one See also:

wall or See also:

PARTITION

partition to another and carrying the flooring boards on the upper edge and the laths of the See also:

CEILING (from a verb " to ceil," i.e. to line or cover; of disputed etymology, but apparently connected with Fr. ciel, Lat. caelum, sky)

ceiling on the See also:

LOWER

lower. In See also:

double flooring there are three See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of joists, binding, bridging, and ceiling joists. The binding joists are the real support of the See also:

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor, See also:

RUNNING

running from wall to wall, and carrying the bridging joists above and the ceiling joists below (see See also:

CARPENTRY

CARPENTRY), The See also:

Mid. Eng. See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the word was giste or gyste, and was adapted from O. Fr. giste, See also:

MODERN

modern gite, a See also:

beam supporting the See also:

PLATFORM (Fr. plateforme, i.e. ground plan)

platform of a See also:

gun. By origin the word meant that on which anything lies or rests (gesir, to See also:

lie; See also:

Lat. jacere). The See also:

ENGLISH

English word " gist," in such phrases as " the gist of the See also:

MATTER

matter," the See also:

main or central point in an See also:

ARGUMENT

argument, is a doublet of joist. According to See also:

SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat, the origin of this meaning is an O. Fr. proverbial expression, Je say bien oiu gist le lievre, I know well where the See also:

hare lies, i.e. I know the real point of the matter.

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