| 单词 | flat joint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflat joint flat joint n. (a) Building (see quot. 1904); (b) U.S. slang (see quot. 1914). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > types of joint tenon and mortise1610 mortise and tenon1631 meeting1663 rustic1728 white joint1758 ground-joint1793 flat joint1825 hick-joint1842 perpend1867 struck joint1876 tuck-joint1879 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 555 In one kind of pointing, the courses are simply marked with the end of a trowel, called flat-joint pointing. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 126/1 Flat joint, a mortar joint flush with the face of the wall. 1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 34 Flat joint. Current amongst open-air sure-thing men who operate at circus gatherings, fairs, carnivals, any gaming establishment... The ‘Shells’; ‘three card monte’; the ‘eight die case’..are all grafting flat joints. The term is derived from the essentiality in all of these crooked devices of a counter or other flat area across or upon which the swindle may be conducted. 1963 R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) xi. 731 Carnival workers, and especially strong-joint or flat-joint operators, have a more or less secret argot. flat joint b. flat joint, set joint, strong joint: see the adjectives. < as lemmas |
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