One by one the lights of the village went out, and when it seemed locked in sleep the red marauders crept toward the nearest house--that of Joist Hite.
It will then be necessary to cut the ends of the joist square and smaller than the rest of the log (Fig.
After the floor is laid over the joist any form of shack, from a rude, open shed to a picturesque thatch-roofed cottage, may be erected upon it.
A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
In the centre of the stage, two pieces of joist must be placed in an inclined position, running from the footlights to the background.
A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.
Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
The jump is made, after a short fast run on a cinder path, from a joist sunk into the ground flush with the path, the jumper landing in a pit filled with loose earth, its level a few inches below that of the path.
Defn: A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.
Ground joist, a joist for a basement or ground floor; a.
To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
Defn: Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
When the pouch is snatched from the crane, the top piece flies up as described, and a parallel short joist at the bottom of the pouch drops.
The former carefully paced off his distance from the joist and marked his start, and as he did so, Vassall and Beven appeared, sporting respectively the dark and light blue, and shook hands with their opponents.
There was the broken ground, showing that the impetus was from the joist and the jumper was at a high rate of speed, and had lifted high in the air.
He overstepped the joist so far that he wrenched his ankle badly and was forced to retire, limping off to the dressing-room on a couple of the boys' shoulders.
I was standing with him close to the joist when I delivered my lecture, and I remained where I was, wondering what the boy was up to.
There were proofs enough to convince Tom that Dick's shoes with Dick in them had run down that cinder-path, and from the joist had jumped the distance.
A jump from the hard ground, either sidewise or backward," said Tom; "nothing but wings could carry a man from the joist to those marks.
He came down the track awkwardly, but at a good speed, caught the joist firmly with his big foot, rose in the air with a grunt, and landed with a thud.
He fortunately reached the mark all right, caught the joist firm and strong, and launched into the air with his knees high.
A thousand feet added to the width of the studs and the depth of the joist will make the difference between a stiff, unterrified frame, and a weak, trembling one.
There are some yellow-birch joist up chamber, all curly, with real handsome whorls in them.
This causes the heap of Rats at the end of the joist to disperse through fear, and when they get running about they will bolt into the net.
Piles made on the Williams system have a steel rolled joist of I section buried in the heart of the pile, and round it a series of steel wire hoops at regular intervals (fig.
In many systems such as the "expanded metal" system, the tension and compression rods together with the stirrups are all abandoned in favour of a single rolled steel joist of I section, buried in concrete (see fig.
A staff was let into the hole in the upper surface of the runner near the outer edge and its upper end through a hole in a board fastened to a joist above.
And Likewise wife, I Maria Magadalena promise the aforesaid Joist Hite.
Later on they sold or transferred part of their grant toJoist Hite who was later called the "Old Baron".
The following goods were brought by the said Mary Magadelena to Joist Hite: "1 In ready money, twenty two pounds seventeen Shillings and four pence.
Joist Hite, the Pioneer When Joist Hite arrived in Virginia he and his family were required to settle on the land bought from the VanMeters.
The home of George Bowman, a son-in-law of Joist Hite, is also close by Strasburg.
Lewis Stephens the founder of this town came to Virginia with Joist Hite in 1732.
Joist Hite had four famous grandsons born at this Bowman home.
The joist had all been laid for the lower floor and the studding now being put up and the upper joist laid on preparatory to erecting the rafters.
Joist Hite's claim overlay that of Lord Fairfax; they fought each other in the courts for fifty years.
Since before the Revolution Jonathan had been engaged to Sarah Hite, the daughter of Joist Hite, first settler of the Shenandoah.
But at the first stroke the violent jar made the far end of the joist leap and come heavily down upon the gathered-together nest of leaves.
Take hold of a joist or two and stir up them nest-like places in the corners.
Fitz moved, joist in hand, towards the other side of the clump.
Poole, as the man stood the joist up against the wall.
You stand by a moment, sir," said the carpenter, picking up the joist upon which he had been operating, and holding it as if it were a lance.
Here, Poole, let's each take a joist and beat him out.
So's this," said the carpenter, letting one end of the joist rest upon the ground and the other fall heavily right across the threatening snake.
He saw then that it had been held by the same piece of joist he himself had used, but had been so hastily and lightly fixed as merely to hold the door shut.
He fastened the door behind them and yet as he put the joistin place, it was not as it was before.
He put his knee against it and shoved, but thejoist held firm.
She turned away and began to pick her way from joist to joist toward the doorway in the wall.
It is formed by cutting a tenon on the trimmer joist and passing it through the side of the trimming joist and fixing it with a wood key.
The Hornsey by-laws with regard to trimmers are as follows:--A trimmer joist shall not receive more than six common joists, and the thickness of a trimming joist receiving a trimmer at not more than 3 ft.
The size of every common bearing floor joist up to 3 ft.
For example, the regulations of the Croydon council require that every common bearing joist for lengths up to 3 ft.
The cellar is seven feet high, and is well lighted by having the joist set well up from the grade line.
They should continue above baseboard, with register opening on second floor and below joist with collar in basement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "joist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
