"Joist" is a word in ENGLISH
A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which
the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling,
are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist,
bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of
Double-framed floor, under Double, a.
To fit or furnish with joists.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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bangun n main floor beams of a house to which the joists (busaug) are nailed.
Read the complete definitionbusaug n floor joist. v [A; c1] put, make into a floor joist.
Read the complete definitionOne of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.
Read the complete definitionA square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, …
Read the complete definitionhanlag n floor joists (busaug) made of bamboo.
Read the complete definitionMortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden …
Read the complete definitionsalug n {1} floor. {2} storey. Ikaupat nga salug, The fourth floor. v [A; b6(1)] put, construct a floor. panalganan …
Read the complete definitionsíkit a close, with least distance. Síkit kaáyu siya nga mubayli, He dances very close. Didtu magtágù ang ilagà, síkit …
Read the complete definitionOne of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground …
Read the complete definitiontábaw n joist, parallel board to which the floor boards are nailed. v [A3; c] put in joists. Ang báhì …
Read the complete definitionOne of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space …
Read the complete definitiontakgus v [A; ac] {1} fasten s.t. to s.t. with a knotted cord. Palíhug rag takgus sa ríbun sa ákung …
Read the complete definitionA beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be …
Read the complete definitionubus n {1} beneath. Ubus sa káhuy may táwu nga naglingkud, Beneath the tree there sat a man. {1a} the …
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