Joint v.

[f. JOINT sb.]

  1.  trans. To connect by a joint or joints; to fasten, fit together, unite. a. lit. material things.

1611.  Shaks., Cymb., V. iv. 142. Branches, which being dead many yeares, shall after reuiue, bee ioynted to the old Stocke, and freshly grow.

1691.  Ray, Creation, II. (1692), 53. The fingers are strengthened with several Bones, jointed together for motion.

1793.  Smeaton, Edystone L., § 193. The manner of jointing the five courses of stone.

1889.  R. S. S. Baden-Powell, Pigsticking, 94. Those which are jointed and soldered together.

  b.  fig. (usually with direct allusion to the literal sense).

1547.  Homilies, I. Contention, ¶ 2. We cannot be ioynted to Christ our Head, except we be glued with concord and charitie one to another.

a. 1634.  Randolph, Muse’s Looking-glass, III. ii. He, with the pegs of amity and concord, Joints ’em together.

1673.  Temple, Observ. United Prov., Wks. 1731, I. 58. They seem to be a sound Piece of the State, and fast jointed in with the rest.

  c.  To fill up the joints of stone, brickwork, etc., with mortar or the like; to point; to represent with (imitation) joints (quot. 1823).

1703.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 247. They joint the long Joints, and also the Cross Joints.

1793.  Smeaton, Edystone L., § 209. They joint the paving with mortar.

1823.  Rutter, Fonthill, 9. The walls and ceiling have been jointed to represent stone.

1897.  Daily News, 4 Sept., 6/1. So, they threw us a lot of red-lead, and each man carried a large piece in his hand, ready to joint into any leak or crack he came across.

  d.  Carpentry, etc. To prepare (a board, stave, etc.) for being joined to another, by planing its edge with a jointer (see JOINTER² 1).

1864.  Webster, Joint, 1 … To prepare so as to fit closely; to fit together;… as to joint boards.

1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., s.v., To joint is to plane straight the edges of boards. Ibid., s.v., Jointer-plane (Coopering), The inclined sole being presented upward for the staves, which are jointed thereon.

  2.  intr. for refl. To fit exactly into each other as in the joints of masonry, etc.

1695.  Temple, Introd. Hist. Eng., 38. A small round Tower built of Stone … so exactly Cut, as every one to Joynt into another.

1726.  Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 55/1. Bricks lying sideways, with their heads joynting into each other … as a Man locks his right hand fingers into his left.

  3.  trans. To divide (a body or member) at a joint or into joints; to dismember, disjoint.

1530.  Palsgr., 592/2. I joynte, I cut meate by the joyntes to make it meter for the potte or spytte.

1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Acodar vides, to ioynt vines, to prune vines, Ceniculare.

1596.  Spenser, F. Q., V. xi. 29. Her huge taile … He with his sword it strooke, that without faile He ioynted it.

1697.  Dryden, Æneid, IX. 1040. He joints the Neck: And with a stroke so strong The Helm flies off; and bears the Head along.

1709.  Brit. Apollo, II. No. 59. 2/1. A Person is Joynting a piece of Meat,… he finds it difficult to Joynt.

1898.  R. Kearton, Wild Life at Home, 78. ‘Jointing’ two large worms [she] flew off at once to her chicks with them.

  † b.  fig. To ‘cut off’ from or deprive of something. Obs.

1573.  G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden), 30. I shal be contentid to be bard of mi mastership and iointid of my fellowship too.

1642.  Rogers, Naaman, 290. Threaten their poore children to joynt them of this or that land or portion.