An ache or pain in the joints.
1576. Baker, Jewell of Health, 60. The water of Iuniper beries … auayleth against all ioyntaches proceeding of colde.
1657. W. Coles, Adam in Eden, lix. It is good for the Sciatica and Joynt-Aches.
b. transf. Applied to a disease of trees.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XVII. xxiv. I. 538. No trees are exempt from the worme, the blasting, and the ioint-ach [dolor membrorum].
