vbl. sb. [f. JOINT v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb JOINT.
1. The action of connecting or uniting by a joint; also fig.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., II. x. 90. An excellent Chirurgeon he was at joynting of a broken soul.
1899. Westm. 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.
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., I. iii. 6. It defends the ends of Gristles, the Joyntings of the greater Bones.
1696. J. Edwards, Exist. & Prov. God, II. 94. Their joyntings and closures are wonderful.
1833. Act 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.
1885. Athenæum 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.
1591. in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials, I. 233. Thair taking vp the bwreit people, and junting of thame, quhairof scho maid inchantit powder for Witchcraft.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 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.
1698. Molyneux, in Phil. Trans., XX. 217. The universal Jointing of the whole Causway, is certainly otherwise.
1784. Twamley, 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.
1865. Geikie, 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.
1900. Daily News, 10 May, 6/4. *Jointing boxes and aigrettes used in the re-arrangement of the lightning conductors of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
1854. Hooker, Himal. Jrnls., I. xvii. 406. Whose surfaces are no doubt, cleavage and *jointing planes.
1875. Knight, 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.
1703. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 247. A *Jointing Rule … whereby to run the long Joints of the Brick-work.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 386. The Jointing-Rule is about eight or ten feet long, and about four inches broad.
