joist
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Noun — A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.
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Etymology
From Old French giste, feminine of gist, the past participle of gesir (“to lie down”).
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