joist
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If you’re going to use nails on the joist hangers, be sure to use approved heavy-duty structural nails that have the proper coating to prevent corrosion.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
The home was badly damaged and every roof joist was left burnt by the fire.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2022
“The first day we start building, you have got to know what a joist is, a stud, decking, all those words.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
Put it in a ceiling joist or reinforced that particular area.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2022
His concentration broken, he stepped awkwardly upon a joist and tripped heavily into the thick dust.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
The often-expansive data-center buildings typically have steel frames made up of wall pillars, roof joists and roof sheeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
When I took on this house, I was thinking, how can we highlight components of it, from the ceiling to the roof to the joists, as if it were an art piece?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
Inside Mr. Zulkibli’s 50-foot-high birdhouse, wooden joists crisscross the ceilings, creating places for birds to make their nests.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
The sophisticated wood artifacts from Schöningen join finds from just a scattering of other sites, such as 476,000-year-old wood joists from Zambia published last year and spears and other tools found elsewhere in Europe.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 31, 2024
Uncle Drum has put a sheet of plywood over those joists.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
The tunnel vault and the joisted ceiling were equally well suited to the long galleries of Assyrian palaces.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
She is a tank ribbed, joisted, stayed, but she is no greater mystery than a tank.
From Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad
"I look to see some handsome joisting," said Don Pedro, who rode with the King of Majorca upon the right of the prince, while Chandos was on the left.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the windows sat stately dames and beautiful maidens, featly adorned, and gazed down at the joisting of the warriors, till that the king himself began to tilt with his kinsmen.
From The Fall of the Niebelungs by Margaret Armour
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