单词 | joist |
释义 | joistn.1 1. One of the timbers on which the boards of a floor or the laths of a ceiling are nailed, and which themselves stand on edge parallel to each other stretching horizontally from wall to wall, or resting on supporting beams or girders; also, A timber which similarly supports the floor of a platform, a bridge, or other structure.In a large floor the main joists ( binding joists) are sometimes more widely apart, and are crossed by smaller bridging joists which bear the boards of the floor; in such a case there may be light joists beneath to bear the laths ( ceiling joists). See also trimming-joist n. at trimming n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > joist joist1379 joist-tree1566 travature1730 case bay1733 floor-joist1859 α. β. 1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 54 Which saving of stuff is the reason of dividing Plank into Girders, Gise, and Board.1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 17 Gises of 9 inches deep.1699 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 237 From out side to out side of the Jyce of said Bridge.1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 42 Which Girder contains but half the Stuff of the 17 Gise.γ. 1413–14 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 441 Item pro xv Jestys longitudinis xiij ped'.1581 Hull Charterho. Acc. in Notes & Queries 6th Ser. VIII. 217/1 1 ieast, 2 sparres, 1 furdeale.a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 12 Tignus, a jest.δ. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxxvi. f. cxviii Sodenly the ioystes of the lofte fayled, and the people fell downe.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxv. 150 They came to Poyssey, and founde the brige broken, but the arches and ioystes lay in the ryuer.1536 MS Rawl. D. 780 lf. 68 The flore with plates yoystes and other nedfull for the same.1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 899 Under the next ceiling between the joysts.?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 78 The fourth being a Cross Joyst or Girder.?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 81 Binding-Joysts with their Trimming-Joysts, thickness five inches, depth equal to their own floors.1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 5 The Kettle to the Top was hoist, And there stood fastned to a Joist.1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 118 When the supporting timbers of a floor are formed by one row laid upon another, the upper row are called bridging joists, and the lower row are called binding joists.1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 76 The floor-joists of one room are the ceiling-joists of the room below.ε. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Riv/2 Ioyse of a house, trabula.1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 125 The tops of these temples..are made of ioises and planks.1610 R. Niccols England's Eliza in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 866 Th'iron barres in sunder they did rent, Beate downe the posts, and all the iewses brent.1613 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 23 I recd out of ffrance..20 square Ioyce.1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia iii. viii. 311 To make Ioyces for the platforme.1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 43 That the Joyses be framed 2½ or three Inches under the top of the Summers.1703 S. Sewall Diary 25 Sept. (1973) I. 492 The Beams and Joyce of the old Hall Floor are laid.1294 Pat. Roll 22 Edw. I m. 3 in Calr. 102 Ad voltam vel gistas.] 1379 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 100 Pro j gyste pro le flore in clocher—3d. 1448 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 8 The Gistes shall be on the one part squar vj inches and on the other part viij inches. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxii. 14 The sylinges and geastes maketh he off Cedre. a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) III. 77 They drew down manie of Alex Clerks geests lying in the street. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > roughly squared beam beam978 balka1400 needle1428 joist1487 sill1488 rafter1553 timbera1575 bat1577 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 597 Of gret gestis ane sow thai maid. 1661 Sc. Acts Chas. II (1814) VII. 252/2 Jeists of oak ilk tuentie peices. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a stand or support to raise from the ground > others spec. joistc1503 standing quoin1626 pot-board1696 urn-stand1862 check-stand1886 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxx/2 That the brewars..fill vp the vessels after thei be leyde on the gyest. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ioysse, whervpon great vessell are couched, or set, incitega. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Rincalzo,..a thing laide vnder a barrell to keepe it from rouling or falling... Some call it a ioyce. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > mass joist1829 shoot1850 ore mass1854 chimney1860 ore shoot1867 orebody1868 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 101 A quantity of very white, striated or fibrous gypsum is dug in the Chellaston pits, in thin beds, called joists. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as joist-hole. ΚΠ 1886 F. Caddy Footsteps Jeanne D'Arc 109 The joist holes are also visible. C2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > joist joist1379 joist-tree1566 travature1730 case bay1733 floor-joist1859 1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 95 Item the rood lofte sold to Johnne okelye and Robarte harwood and thei haue made a ioyce tree for a chamber. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). joistjoyestjoysen.2 obsolete and dialect ff. gist n.2, agistment. [As to the oi < i , see joist n.1] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > agistment gistment1511 agistment1537 joist1558 justment1597 agisting1598 agistation1686 agistage1691 gisement1695 gisting1829 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent gistment1511 agistment1537 joist1558 justment rent1597 agisting1598 agistation1686 agistage1691 gisement1695 gisting1829 1558 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 118 For pyche to merke kye with all, at the first joyest taken in-to the Cow~pasture. 1621 in G. Ornsby Select. from Househ. Bks. Naworth Castle (1878) 158 Rec. of Henry Wilson for joyse cattle at Mosedall, xxli. 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 i. 234 The farmers keep no sheep, but a man called a ‘joist’ shepherd brings his flock, and has the run of the stubbles and other food. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). joistv.1 transitive. a. To furnish with joists. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > provide with beams or supports needle1502 joista1615 pillar1711 truss1823 strut1828 tree1887 girder1938 beam- a1615 Balnagown MS in W. R. Baillie Breve Cron. Earlis of Ross (1850) 20 He caused to joist and loft the chamber. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 95 A fair long gallery joiced, not boarded. b. To fix on joists. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > provide with beams or supports > fix on joists joist1839 1839 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 63 423 Large holes..in which the several floorings were joisted. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † joistv.2 English regional. Obsolete. transitive. To agist; = gist v.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > agist gist1483 joist1601 agist1702 tack1839 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > put to hired pasture gist1483 joist1601 tack1839 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > pasture for rent gist1483 agist1598 joist1601 tack1839 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. x. 90 By joisting and laying in of the said beasts. 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 238 The common price of joisting a horse is one shilling and six-pence per week in clover. 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 408 Many of the labourers keep a cow, or ‘joist’ one upon a neighbouring farmer's land. 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