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jointing, vbl. n.|ˈdʒɔɪntɪŋ|
[f. joint v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb joint.
1. The action of connecting or uniting by a joint; also fig.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. x. 90 An excellent Chirurgeon he was at joynting of a broken soul. 1899Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 8/1 The old piles..showing the tool marks and evidences of morticing and jointing.
b. concr. The structure of a joint or junction.
1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. iii. 6 It defends the ends of Gristles, the Joyntings of the greater Bones. 1696J. Edwards Exist. & Prov. God ii. 94 Their joyntings and closures are wonderful. 1833Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 46 §116 The said Commissioners shall..form the jointing with the other pipes to be added thereto with proper and sufficient materials. 1885Athenæum 22 Aug. 247/2 Another wall..of fine squared white stone drafted at the jointings, so that it looks panelled.
2. The action of dividing at the joints, or into ‘joints’; dismemberment, disjointing.
1591in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. 233 Thair taking vp the bwreit people, and junting of thame, quhairof scho maid inchantit powder for Witchcraft. 1603Holland Plutarch 750 About cutting it up, quartering, jointing, seething and rosting.
3. The formation of joints or cleavage planes in rocks, etc.; the nature or arrangement of these.
1698Molyneux in Phil. Trans. XX. 217 The universal Jointing of the whole Causway, is certainly otherwise. 1784Twamley Dairying 27 [The cheese] when released from the Press, will heave, or puff up, by Splitting or Jointing, according as the Nature or State of the Curd happens to be. 1865Geikie Scen. & Geol. Scot. vi. 119 In one part the solid granite is only beginning to show its lines of jointing.
4. attrib. and Comb., as jointing-plane, (a) a plane of ‘jointing’ or fissure, as in a rock; (b) = jointer2 1 a; jointing-rule, a long flat ruler used for guiding the jointer (jointer2 1 b) in marking the joints of brickwork.
1900Daily News 10 May 6/4 *Jointing boxes and aigrettes used in the re-arrangement of the lightning conductors of St. Paul's Cathedral.
1854Hooker Himal. Jrnls. I. xvii. 406 Whose surfaces are no doubt, cleavage and *jointing planes. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Jointing-plane, a plane with a long stock, used to true the edges of boards or staves which are to be accurately fitted together.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 247 A *Jointing Rule..whereby to run the long Joints of the Brick-work. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 386 The Jointing-Rule is about eight or ten feet long, and about four inches broad. |