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joist

[joist] / dʒɔɪst /
NOUN
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Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Six months later, Mr. Minnick found a job at Trus Joist, a $30 million forest-products company in Boise.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2010

They were soon followed by others, among them Joist Hite at the head of sixteen families from York, Pennsylvania, who settled at the site of Winchester.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

The home of George Bowman, a son-in-law of Joist Hite, is also close by Strasburg.

From Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia by Northington, Etta Belle Walker

The Dutchmen, John and Isaac Van Meter, were among the first to buy land from Joist Hite, probably the first settler in the Valley.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

How Joist Bork and his little daughter are forced at last into the "Opus Magicum"—Item, how his Highness, Duke Francis, appoints Christian Ludecke, his attorney-general, to be witch-commissioner of Pomerania.

From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Meinhold, Wilhelm




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