See joist on Wiktionary
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "piece of timber",
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"word": "Träger"
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "gerenda"
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"word": "ászokfa"
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"word": "giarsa"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "piece of timber",
"word": "gistura"
},
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"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"note": "of a floor",
"sense": "piece of timber",
"word": "gelegar"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"note": "of a roof",
"sense": "piece of timber",
"word": "jeliau"
},
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "kurupae"
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"word": "tauwhenua"
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"word": "rouai"
},
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"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
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],
"word": "bałka"
},
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"code": "dsb",
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"word": "drjewno"
}
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"ref": "2001, David Pickell, Between the Tides: A Fascinating Journey Among the Kamoro of New Guinea, revised edition, Hong Kong: Periplus, published 2002, Chapter Four, page 112:",
"text": "The floors are joisted with sapling tree trunks, and the flooring itself is made of bark, split and pounded flat into strips. No attempt is made either to fasten or join the strips of flooring.",
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"To fit or furnish with joists."
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"(transitive) To fit or furnish with joists."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to furnish with joists",
"word": "vasoittaa"
}
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