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joist

noun as in support

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The composite decking products can sag if you space the floor joists too far apart.

The sophisticated wood artifacts from Schöningen join finds from just a scattering of other sites, such as 476,000-year-old wood joists from Zambia published last year and spears and other tools found elsewhere in Europe.

He discovered that the bandboard that caps the ends of his floor joists was rotting.

Normal dimensional floor joists are not always the exact same dimensions and often have crowns in them.

One big one is using roofing nails to attach joist hangers on decks or inside a home.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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