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▪ I. † jointer1 Obs. [? f. joint a. (or joint- in jointure) + -er1.] A joint possessor; one who holds a jointure.
1566J. Studley tr. Seneca's Agamemnon (1581) 147 b, Thou that dost rule with him, made jointer of his mace. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon x. 8 Ile make thy daughter ioynter of it all, So thou consent to giue her to my wife. ▪ II. jointer2|ˈdʒɔɪntə(r)| [f. joint v. + -er1.] One who or that which joints. 1. Name of various tools. a. Carpentry, etc. A long kind of plane used in dressing the edges of boards, staves, etc. in preparation for jointing them; also, a machine used in jointing staves.
1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. iv. §4 (1683) I. 65 The Joynter is made somewhat longer than the Fore-plane..Its Office is to follow the Fore-plane, and to shoot an edge perfectly straight,..especially when a Joynt is to be shot. 1875Carpentry & Join. 25 The carpenter uses this jack plane first, and, subsequently, his longer trying plane, and still longer jointer, to put the final touches. 1885J. Richards Wood-Working Machinery 147 The first and leading tools are bench planes, a set of which should consist of one 26-inch jointer..one 24-inch jointer..one 22-inch foreplane [etc.]. 1900C. G. Wheeler Woodworking for Beginners xvi. 448 The jointer..is more accurate for making a surface level and true, or for shooting the edges of boards. 1953W. Coventon Woodwork Tools ii. 48 The trying plane..will be used for finishing the jointing, unless there is much jointing to do in hardwood, when it will pay to follow with a steel panel and jointer plane. 1958G. H. Love Theory & Pract. Woodwork ii. 28 Working on the assumption that the longer the surface, the longer the plane required to true it, we have the jointer, a plane which is even longer than the trying plane. 1959Handyman & Home Mechanic I. 36/2 Steel trying planes are often known as jointers, and are similar to steel jack planes except in length. b. Masonry. A tool used for filling with mortar or for marking the joints between courses of brick or stone work.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 247 A Jointer of Iron, with which, and the foresaid Rule, they joint the long Joints,..the Cross Joints..being done with the Jointer without the Rule. 1812–16J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 194 The iron tool used along with the jointing-rule, to mark the joints of brick-work, is called a jointer; its form is nearly that of the letter {horizS}, though its flexure is not in proportion so considerable. c. A bent piece of iron inserted into a wall to strengthen a joint.
1864in Webster. 2. A workman employed in jointing; esp. one who makes the junctions between parts of an electric wire, etc.
1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 235 Not only should the jointer's hands be scrupulously clean, but he should see that the wires to be joined are equally so, the copper being scraped bright and clean. 1895B'ham Weekly Post 16 Mar. 4/8 There are plenty of excavators, but the pipe jointers are very scarce. 3. In the West Indies, a common name of Piper geniculatum.
1847Gosse Birds of Jamaica 73 The deserted provision-grounds are overgrown with a thicket, almost impenetrable, of jointer, or jointwood. 4. Comb. jointer-plane = sense 1 a.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 245 The Jointer-Plane is the longest of all the planes... It is used for shooting the edges to boards perfectly straight, so that their juncture may scarcely be discernible when their surfaces are joined together. 1881Young Every man his own Mechanic §244 Trying-planes and Jointer-planes differ from the jack-plane in being longer and set with a finer cut. |