The Collaborative International Dictionary
Joint \Joint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Jointing.]
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To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.
Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood.
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To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
Jointing their force 'gainst C[ae]sar.
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To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
The fingers are jointed together for motion.
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To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. ``He joints the neck.''
--Dryden.Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting.
--Holland.
Jointing \Joint"ing\, n. The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced.
Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc.
Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2.
Jointing rule (Masonry), a long straight rule, used by bricklayers for securing straight joints and faces.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of making a joint 2 The set of joints so produced 3 The initial grinding of the teeth of a cutting tool, prior to sharpening
WordNet
Wikipedia
Jointing may refer to:
- Edge jointing of a board to ensure that it is straight, square and smooth, usually prior to joining two or more boards together to create a wider board.
- Jointing the teeth of a saw blade or the edges of cutting knives, card scrapers etc.
- Jointing the mortar joints in brickwork.
- In geology jointing, refers to the formation of natural fractures in rocks.
- In agriculture, the jointing stage is that point at which the internodal tissue in the grass leaf begins to elongate, forming a stem (culm).
- In petroleum standardization, jointing refers to the process of generating joint standard test methods (STM), by two or more standardization bodies, that are technically equivalent.
Jointing of electricity power cables
Jointing refers to the process of filing or grinding the teeth or knives of cutting tools prior to sharpening. The purpose of jointing is to ensure that all surfaces to be sharpened are of a consistent size and all imperfections have been removed.
Jointing is usually the first step in the process of sharpening:
- When sharpening a hand saw blade, the teeth are jointed by running a flat file over the tips of the teeth so that they are all of the same height.
- Circular saw blades are jointed prior to sharpening so that all teeth protrude from the blade the same distance from the centre.
- Jointer knives are ground until they are all the same length prior to sharpening.
- The edges of a card scraper are jointed by running the edge over a file or a sharpening stone prior to turning the burr.
Jointing is usually carried out infrequently as it removes a lot of material from the edge of the blade.
Usage examples of "jointing".
His mouth opened in a shout of disbelief as Garric's blade crunched through with the sureness of a hand used to jointing roasts for the inn's kitchen.
It was like the look on the face of a cook determining where to start jointing a dead hen.
His mouth opened in a shout of disbelief as Garric's blade crunched through with the sure-ness of a hand used to jointing roasts for the inn's kitchen.
Mighty nice to have some one cooking the turnip greens and jointing a chicken while a man was out in the fields.
Then he spent some time studying the jointing of the arches that supported the vault above, running his fingers over the grooves.
There were two knives: the smaller, a hatchet-bladed cleaver, heavy and hard, for cutting through the rib cage, for jointing and segmenting.
There was also the animal dread of the dark, of endless blackness and the ever-present thought of getting lost in mazes of slits and belly crawls so tight that retreat was impossible because of the jointing of the human body.
Joe succeeded in cutting the caoutchouc jointings above the car, but when he came to the pipes he found it more difficult to disengage them, because they were held by their upper extremity and fastened by wires to the very circlet of the valve.
The cunning jointing of the limbs, the marvelously practical detail of the eye, the economy of the external muscle system, were admirable.