When fixing something to the ceiling, you should screw it into a joist for strength.
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Joist
/d͡ʒɔɪst/
Synonyms for "joist" (7 found)
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A joist pull up is an especially difficult, grip-intensive variant of that exercise where you grip two parallel exposed joists from below, palms up, and pull yourself up.
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[…] a Family was infected there, in so terrible a Manner that every one of the House died; the last Person lay dead on the Floor, and as it is supposed, had laid her self all along to die just before the Fire; the Fire, it seems had fallen from its Place, being of Wood, and had taken hold of the Boards and the Joists they lay on, and burnt as far as just to the Body, but had not taken hold of the dead Body […]
Source: wiktionary
There are generally forty-two teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed; nor filled after our artificial fashion. The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses.
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