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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Joint  \Joint\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Jointed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Jointing}.] 
  1.  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. 
  --Pope. 
 
  2.  To  join  to  connect;  to  unite;  to  combine. 
 
  Jointing  their  force  'gainst  C[ae]sar.  --Shak. 
 
  3.  To  provide  with  a  joint  or  joints;  to  articulate. 
 
  The  fingers  are  jointed  together  for  motion.  --Ray. 
 
  4.  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Jointed  \Joint"ed\,  a. 
  Having  joints;  articulated;  full  of  nodes;  knotty;  as  a 
  jointed  doll;  jointed  structure.  ``The  jointed  herbage.'' 
  --J.  Philips.  --  {Joint"ed*ly},  adv 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  jointed 
  adj  :  (zoology)  having  joints  or  jointed  segments; 




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