Forms: see JOIST sb.1 [f. JOIST sb.1] trans. a. To furnish with joists. b. To fix on joists.

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a. 1615.  Brieue Cron. Erlis of Ross (1850), 20. He caused to joist and loft the chamber.

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1635.  Brereton, Trav. (Chetham Soc.), 95. A fair long gallery joiced, not boarded.

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1839.  Southey, in Q. Rev., LXII. 423. Large holes … in which the several floorings were joisted.

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